My last 3000GT DOHC 24 VALVE 5-SPEED NON-TURBO. This guy has a 1992 3000gt vr4 asking 3,000 or a trade and I told him I would consider a trade mine has 122,000 miles his has 130,000 miles his mine run great driveable registration up to date and all. His is having this problem. HE said it drivable but I will have to switch out the lifter I dont know how much that will cost. He said the car ran good, I changed the oil, parked it because I was replacing the driveshaft and now a lifter is floating-could be because I used the Lucas oil additive. Either way, it idles with no problem, does not overheat and the turbos kick in just fine. You can hear the floating lifter come and go. This is how he has it posted.

This is common with the 92's and the upgrade to these lifter is to install 97 and up. The specs are:
3.0 Twin Turbo with about 130k miles
5 speed
4 wheel drive (just put in a new 3 piece drive shaft with new carrier bearings)
4 wheel steering
Red exterior
Black good leather interior
am/fm tape/cd
Cold A/C
good tires
Rear active spoiler works
Custom exhaust works
lights work
Just replaced the valve cover gaskets
Turbos spool just fine.
compression check verified pretty much that its a lifter with 150 psi on all cylinders.

The bad:
Of course the floating lifter
Window motors
Toggle switched the fans (cant trust the factory settings on a Twin Turbo car)
AWS light comes on and off-wierd power steering issue-the light turns off after a bit of driving
Cluster works when it wants to

Would appreciate it if some one can help me out and tell me if this is a good swap or not im thinking no because ill have to waste so much money on it but thinking it can be a real chaep fix I know my lifters were ticking yesterday as a matter of fact I added this formula from orileys and with in 2 min the noise went away and sounds alot better it is called (ENGINE RESTORE & LUBRICANT WITH CSL) 6 Cylinder Formula *restore compression * restores horspower * reduce oil conumption * restore engine life.

I recoment any one to buy this product its worth it. Just let me know thanks

 

Sounds to me like a problem waiting for a new home. Dont bother.

 

Although I'm biased...it sounds to me like he is trying to dump his problems on you.

 

^^^^agreed.

 

Its up to you, but in my opinion I wouldn't trade even when its so addicting since its a vr4. Second a vr4 for 3k is to cheap and you don't know what other problem the car have.

 

you have a perfectly running car and trading it in for a car with alot of problems is going to be more of a headache. and that vr-4 that seems so sweet now will be like big punishment to you down the road. either way its your choice but maybe have a mechanic check it out if you are really serious about it.

 

toggle switch for his fans?

sorry, but that means he ****ed up a relay or wiring, and put in a toggle. They work perfectly fine from the factory.


it's been abused, I can guarantee that.

 

btw, the 97 lifters are exactly the same as 91-96. The 99 lifters have a bigger opening allowing more oil to flow through, reducing lifter tick.