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Ok, this isn't as simple as some may think...atleast I don't think so.

I purchased my 94 with 132k miles on it, around 136k I had a lifter fail, it got a flat spot, ate the cam, all that good stuff. I figured it was a good idea to purchase 16 OEM lifters. I did that, new cam and also put on some heads that had 5k miles on them because I got a steal of a deal. I soaked the lifters in oil even though I guess that isn't needed, but I did. I get everything together, start it, and whenever I start the car I always hear nasty lifter chatter or whatever for like 15 seconds...it never did this before my problems. Drive it around, like 1k miles later I go and do some 1/4 mile racing at an air strip, revving the car to 6k all day long, everything was fine. Week later I goto the track and on the #5 cylinder I hear some metal and such I bent the pushrod, knocked both rockers off and all that good stuff. Fixed that, and when I adjusted the rockers on them I did the spin method with 1/2 a turn, at one point I tried puting them at like 1 1/4 and they are still really noise, so I ended up re-adjusting them to 3/4 turn and left it so. Then like 5k miles later after doing some racing this weekend I park the car and everything sounds fine. I start the car to goto class and I get the nasty lifter sounds as they pump up or whatever but it doesn't go away. I pull the valve cover and sure enough, #5 rocker came off, minimal damage its fixed now. My lifters are still VERY noisy, I guess another thing I should mention is that I run 20w50 oil in the car at the moment...but it did it with 10w30 as well. I really don't like the fact that its loud on startup, I have never heard another one do that, specially on stock lifters. Also, I can hear them if I rev the car when im under the hood...so I really have no idea what to do. 1 1/4 turn has to be 2 much, I dunno, any help would be much appreciated. :confused: :cry: :cry: