put some kent hydraulic lifters(followers) in my car today but i don't know what to set them to? as there wasn't a sheet telling me or anything any ideas?

 

Dont think your meant to set them if there hydraulic mate,think its solid lifters you need to adjust.

 

hydraulic.... u dont touch them. But, if you haven't put a new cam in at the same time, they will be scrap by now.

 

There not the hydraulic ones cos they've got to sorta nuts on top that need setting up any ideas?

 

i'd go for .008 inlet, .012 exhaust (0.2mm and 0.3mm)

 

ok then cheers mate

 

they're just standard-ish figures for most cars to be honest...

if you know what cam you have, you can look on kent cams website at their broschure and it'll give you the exact figures. if you haven't got a cam designed for solid lifters, you'll lose some lift.

 

Is the cam meant to be used with solid lifters or was it originally used with hydrualic lifters?

it DOES matter!

 

And as Rick said, is it a new cam? or are you just bunging the lifters in?

 

its a fast road kent cam

 

i take it its for the fiesta?

and the things with nuts on are like a boat kinda shape if so these armt your lifters, lifters are the cylinders things that fit below it

but the haynes manual should tell you what setting to torque the nuts upto, but dont over tighten them as they have a tendencu to rip the stud and threads out the head

 

yea i know what the lifters are but there adjustable so hence asking?

 

so if the cam is a hydralic one i need hydralic lifters instead of the adjustable ones?

 

anychance of a pic as i havnt a clue what you mean now

only adjustable ones i know of are on hcs engines or teh sierra v6

 

not really there all in now


but basically the followers/lifter ive got have to different bolts on the top which you can adjust but the hydraulics don't so im guessing for a hydraulic cam shaft ill need hydraulic lifters yea?

 

did that make sense?

 

are yours like this

http://www.fastfords.org.uk/pics/newmanc5.jpg

 

these are the ones but i think these are wrong and i need the hydraulic ones

 

as far as i know there adjustable solid lifters

i think newman cams supply these in there kits

they need to be adjusted to to whatever they say in the instructions before fitment i think

but yes the other type are hydraulic and are different

with these ones you have the benefits are more for higher revving engines like 8k

 

oh rite i see, well in the book that came with the cam it doesn't give u any measurements as tho i should have the other type of ones

 

AFPMSL at the sudden influx of people lately that think you can just put Solid Followers with a normal cam intended for Hydraulics.

 

see i wasn't sure ad when i ordered my kent cam thats the only kent followers that were on there so i assumed they were the right ones, obviously there not so got a set of hydraulic followers on there way

 

Im one of them,although nothing suddenly or lately in my case, and I know loads of people who have been doing so for years and never had a problem, even on 10K+ miles on trackday engines, with no visible cam wear, in fact ive got hydraulic profile N/A cams in my turbo nova on solid lifters too!

Im well aware that you lose a small amount of lift when you do so, and im also aware that the ramp doesnt have the initial few thou gentley dialled in to increase cam life by lesening the impact at the beginning of the lift like many (but not all anyway!) solid cam profiles do, but bottom line is, it DOES work just fine in a lot of instances.