Have to remove heads
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Have to remove heads
Can any of you guys recommend or suggest exactly what to replace top end parts with on my 2007 LS 2. Seeing as I already got to take the engine apart, remove heads as I’m almost sure I’m hearing lifter noise. I want to replace it with the best possible stuff as I plan on keeping the car. I just don’t know what the latest and greatest is for the top end of this car. Thank you in advance.
i’d love to find somebody who specializes in LS rebuild in the Los Angeles area. But I’ll probably end up doing it myself.
i’d love to find somebody who specializes in LS rebuild in the Los Angeles area. But I’ll probably end up doing it myself.
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So thats a pretty open ended question. What are your goals for the car? Being that your in Cali anything thats to much of a departure from stock is going to require tuning and make you fail emissions. If your just looking to increase lifter reliability I would go to a Johnson short travel and hardened pushrods. unless your doing a cam the stock springs and rockers are fine. You could maybe bet away with some mild porting and mill the heads a bit to bump the compression without needing a tune.
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Can any of you guys recommend or suggest exactly what to replace top end parts with on my 2007 LS 2. Seeing as I already got to take the engine apart, remove heads as I’m almost sure I’m hearing lifter noise. I want to replace it with the best possible stuff as I plan on keeping the car. I just don’t know what the latest and greatest is for the top end of this car. Thank you in advance.
i’d love to find somebody who specializes in LS rebuild in the Los Angeles area. But I’ll probably end up doing it myself.
i’d love to find somebody who specializes in LS rebuild in the Los Angeles area. But I’ll probably end up doing it myself.
Thread Starter
Intermediate
Joined: Aug 2024
Posts: 34
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So thats a pretty open ended question. What are your goals for the car? Being that your in Cali anything thats to much of a departure from stock is going to require tuning and make you fail emissions. If your just looking to increase lifter reliability I would go to a Johnson short travel and hardened pushrods. unless your doing a cam the stock springs and rockers are fine. You could maybe bet away with some mild porting and mill the heads a bit to bump the compression without needing a tune.
