Just a friendly tip after they get to around 1.5lb and bigger try to hold them straight up and down like you are in the second pic if you hold them like the first pick when they get bigger it can dislocate their bottom jaw and they want be able to survive and the thing is you want even notice or...
yep its best if you know an individual with a tuner versus a shop but most tuning shops try to make as much as possible which most are around the 300 range ive been thinking about getting the hp stuff and doing this on the side but just havent made the leap yet
Yep for the amount of trouble the active lifters have its not worth what little fuel it saves. The good thing is if you have a tune put in that deletes the afm before you have trouble it acts just like regular lifters and only cost around 3 hundred or so to do . Like i was saying in earlier post...
also these engines due have a higher oil consumption than the older engines due to fuel gettng into oil as much as 1 quart every 2k is normal if you start noticing a higher oil use take oil cap off and smell of it if it has a strong fuel smell the high pressure fuel pump under the intake is...
ive not really seen any advantage to them direct injection motors do need to have induction services done about every 25 k due to how dirty the valves get in dpi motors and a good injector cleaner ran through it about every 10 k i recomend the bg products such as 44k but as far as the cans i...
You can actually have that programmed out if you can find someone that has an hp tuner or a speed shop than does tuning and thats alot cheaper than doing a full delete set up if its turned off that pretty much stops the chance off lifters collapsing because they usually fail when going into v4...
if you do end up putting a cam in dont cheap out on head gaskets spend the money for gm head gaskets it will save you some head ache and also make sure you change the valve lifter oil manifold its the plate thats under the intake it has the solenoids that activate and deactivate the cylinders...
what cylinder are you taking out if its 1,4,6,or 7 its the active fuel cylinders and theres a possibility the exhaust lifter has collapsed causing the exhaust to go back into the intake which will cause this issue also you wont be able to pull the lifters up they are in a guide cup and they go...
Absolutely the shear amount of act a fool in a hooked small mouth is unreal. I ve seen them jump 5 feet in the air then hit water and run straight towards the boat then dive under boat and jump behind the boat . Ive hung into some good small mouth on watts bar back in its hay day my biggest was...