hey jan or erik can u define this for me i found this on overboost
"hydraulic units" and "manipulating to work better with FI"

If you drive a Honda, don’t forget that the valve train needs periodic maintenance in the form of valve lash adjustments. Since Honda builds high-revving engines with relatively “long” cam timing events, solid valve lifters (tappets) are used instead of maintenance-free hydraulic units. This can be a great advantage to the Honda tuner as the valves can be manipulated to work better with forced induction, nitrous or in a certain engine load and RPM range.

 

I've played around with valve lash quite extensively, I do not think there is any advantage to changing stock valve lash specifications in a forced induction application. I use idle vacuum as a guide, personally I first adjusted the lash at about 15K because the ticking at idle was annoying, I went a little tighter than stock and idle quality suffered tremendously, I then adjusted the lash again back to stock spec and the slight ticking (typical) returned, but it idled perfectly (maximum vacuum).

 

I run stock settings. Since I boosted her I have only had to adjust my values 1 time. Only 1 of them was a little off and needed to be adjusted. The rest I did it was for the ticking that Jan was talking about and it idles great. I see how a different lash would benefit anyway. Sorry I could be of help to you man.

 

Honestly, I think whomever wrote the article started writing before they started thinking. I do understand that he is implying that if you manipulate valve overlap, you can change (not necessarily improve) the power curve, but you would need adjustable cam gears for that, not a different valve lash setting. I know that some people who have boosted Rs use GSR cams to resolve the implied issue.

 

I do! :lol:

 

I do! :lol:[/quote:046ad15711]

I know......(like how I said some people.. )

 

thanks for the info guys

:sniff:sniff: love u guys :cry: