will xr3i lifters work in my rs turbo or will they be different?

 

Nope, exactly the same!

 

thanks mate i thought they would be but better to be safe than sorry

 

They will fit, but if they are used you are wasting your time fitting them to a foreign cam.

The whole top end wear from the minute the engine is first started, so mix and match may work for a few miles until the worn cam lobes grind them down again.

The cam and lifters need to be replaced as an entire new set really.

 

True I have seen this done. the second hand engine I bought for its block (as mine had large hole) was bad two of the lifters were in fact so bad I had to fource them out with grips. the cam mushrooms the bottom out....nice.

 

You may find its damaged the bores they sit in then. when they are that bad the best way is to slide the cam and drop them in and out through the cam hole to avoid damaging anything

 

It did score the hole. its just spare head I took of a second hand engine before block rebiuld. just sitting under my bench at work now. might use it as a door stop or somthing in the future!