so i want to rebuild my engine and cant afford to do it all at once, my valves i guess, well at least thats what friends are telling me are kinda loud, and annoying, really loud,can hear it when im driving and it sounds like crap, my questions is, would it be safe to go and put new racing high comp valves, springs,and retainers in right away or would it be better to wait and do the whole engine all at once, also is it normal for it to be clicking like that, a lot of people say its normal for a honda to make that noise, my car is a 94 gsr with 135,000 on the odometer, thanks

 

Instead of immediatly thinking you have to replace something, have you adjusted your valves recently?

 

i havent touch it and i dont know how, suppose i could look that up, if i couldnt do that my self would that cost a lot? also i was replacing all that stuff anyways

 

I think it's like $75 for a shop to do them, but I'm not sure as I always did them myself. You really only need a 17mm deep socket and ratchet to turn the crank, spark plug socket and long extension to remove the plugs for easier and smoother turning, a set of feeler guages, a 10mm wrench and flathead screwdriver for the rocker adjustment, and a torque wrench that will go down to about 10 ft/lbs. I think the torque on those is like 12 ft/lbs, but I'd look it up for sure.

 

what are feeler gauges, how much and where can i get them, i have a few friends that are into building there engine so i think i could make this happen, never thought of just adjusting the valves, thanks for the help, and would this clean up the noise and maybe free up some lost power?

 

Valve adjustment is regular maintenance. I don't know about freeing up power, but it will help the engine run more efficiently and likely fix your loud valves.

These are feeler gauges:

 

I'm probebly going to adjust my valves today, would you happen to know the specs?

 

Download the teg HELMS in the sticky above. h:

 

Nevermind i got them, .003-.005 for intake and .006-.008 for exhaust valves on the B18B1