They are Hydraulic cam and lifters. Cam is deffinatly hitting the timing cover. If you start it up and place you hand on it, it's completly obvious. I have changed the cam button as was suggested before by the local machine shop. This did not change anything. I'll try to post the part numbers of both the cam and lifters, as soon as possible. I'm using the nuts where you lock the allen head inside and against the hex nut. As far as the cam and lifters being worn down, i rebuilt the motor about 4 years ago, and only drive the car in the summers, is it possible for them to be worn that fast? Another thing that i thought about was that last year i had body work done on the car, and it was not started for a pertty long period of time (6-8 months) could this have hurt the lifters or carm? Keep the replies comming, i wanna fix this thing!!
thanks guys,
Ben