dirty19

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Guess i need to login to NASA every now and then?

1998GsRIntegra

Glad your hard work was finally rewarded with a reliable engine.

Lo-Buck EF

this was almost bad. caught it in the pre-season checks. we went back to oem retainers.

VTECIntegra9

Moar pix! Is that wear or deformation? Hard to tell in that top view.

Lo-Buck EF

Wear. The spring does move around especially at high revs.

known

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B Crower makes some steel retainers too just FYI. Awesome to see you have such a good season, and are still running!

Runnerdown

What is that supertech springs and retainers?

coolhandluke

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Yikes, close call.

Lo-Buck EF

Yup. First time I've had them wear this fast. But my other engines were 1.8s that revved almost 1000 rpm less.
Still runs. Won the first race of the season, was leading the second race and got pushed off my an out of class car and retired with damage.

Runnerdown

I'd treat that pretty seriously. Rapid wear like that is a sign of an unhappy valvetrain. Do you know what spring kit it is from supertech? And what cams does it have. If those retainers wore that quick an oem one may snap. Unless it was a material defect. I'd look a little deeper into root cause on that one...

1tuffbb6

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Subscribed.

Lo-Buck EF

its the supertech kit for oem cams. i have the pn downstairs.
the head has oem '00 itr cams in it. a few old school b series guys confirmed that it happens with ti retainers at high revs. the springs move and wear the retainer. i can see the evidence of the spring moving on the bottom of the retainer.

Calif_Kid

Any idea how high the revs have to be to have this occur with the Ti retainers? Or if the revs are lower, will the problem still occur, but just take longer to show up? I've got a JDM type R, and I usually shift around 8200rpm,but the rev limiter is at 8500rpm, so just wondering about this issue. Is the issue just confined to the Ti retainers? - Jim

Lo-Buck EF

I have a couple heads with the same retainers. The gsr only spun to 8500 and the retainers lasted at least 25% longer. A general rule of thumb is to check ti retainers once a year at a minimum.
Or just use steel oem ones. 3 days and some dyno pulls on them. No issues.
Thanks chad for the tip.

American.Graffiti

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Glad to see this thing is holding together.

Lo-Buck EF

still runs

rice_classic

I thought this oldie but goodie was appropriate:

1998GsRIntegra

Was I right or was I right?