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Old May 15, 2014 | 11:12 PM
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Have they discontinued the Brian tooley racing slow leakdown rate lifters? I looked on the website and couldn't find them. If so what lifters are recommended?
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Old May 15, 2014 | 11:31 PM
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Old May 16, 2014 | 12:01 AM
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They still on the site for 209 dollars
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Old May 16, 2014 | 01:15 AM
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They're not on the BTR website at all, so you'll need to call and find out if he has any remaining stock of them.
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Old May 16, 2014 | 08:20 AM
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Yes, we have discontinued the Slow Leakdown Rate lifters. Even though we had less issues with our SLR lifters than we do with the Morel lifters, I'm still not comfortable selling something that may not be 100%.

Selling Slow Leakdown Rate lifters without a test stand to actually test every one is like selling springs without having a spring tester. It's actually worse since springs will very far less than lifters will. Very minute differences in plunger to lifter bore fitment can make for huge changes in actual leak down rate.

We do have an alternative to the lifters that we offered, we now have the Johnson Slow Leakdown Rate lifters. These are the same exact lifters being used in the COPO Camaro.

http://www.briantooleyracing.com/joh...ters-2110.html
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Old May 16, 2014 | 10:20 AM
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Well that makes ne feel great about my lifters....
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Old May 16, 2014 | 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Cwarta
Well that makes ne feel great about my lifters....
We stand behind what we sell, so don't worry, we haven't had a single failure. We just don't feel like the leak down rate is consistent enough.

99% don't have a issue, but the 1% is too high of an issue rate for me. Compare that to the almost 20% issue rate we have on Morel 5206 lifters for comparison sake...
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Old May 16, 2014 | 10:52 AM
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So what are the better lifters to buy? I don't want top dollar since I'm on a slight budget.
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Originally Posted by Brian Tooley
We stand behind what we sell, so don't worry, we haven't had a single failure. We just don't feel like the leak down rate is consistent enough.

99% don't have a issue, but the 1% is too high of an issue rate for me. Compare that to the almost 20% issue rate we have on Morel 5206 lifters for comparison sake...
Well that makes me feel better lol. I'm running them on a pretty big cam and spinning them pretty hard with 0 issues and they are by far the quietest ones I've had.
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Old May 16, 2014 | 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by R-Steffen 99ls1
So what are the better lifters to buy? I don't want top dollar since I'm on a slight budget.
You should give the drop in Johnson SLR lifters a shot. Basically they're the same lifters that we were selling except with more consistent leakdown rates.
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Old May 16, 2014 | 06:25 PM
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What lifters would you recommend in an LS7 with your 1207X springs, BTR trunion'd stock rockers, with a pretty aggressive cam. Mainly street cruising / racing duty
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Old May 18, 2014 | 10:55 AM
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I am surprised we don't hear more about CANE CAMS newest high RPM hid. lifter.
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Old May 18, 2014 | 01:09 PM
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Id recommend the 5315 morels for just a drop in, which we have on a great deal right now, or if you want to step up to the tie bars, the morel streets are a great option.
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Old May 18, 2014 | 05:00 PM
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They're pretty proud of those Johnson's compared to what the btr was(199.00)
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