How many hours have you gotten out of your...
06-08-2006 | 06:55 AM
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How many hours have you gotten out of your HP500?
Still looking at buying this 96 Formula 382 SR 1 with HP500's. The sellers claim that the motors have less than 20 hours, but can't produce receipts! In the last 2 weeks, they've already had to replace the lifters and re-adjust the valves on one motor. The compression is good @ 165 "across the board", although I didn't have it checked myself. The hour meters read like 650 or so.
Before I spend any more time, money or effort, I figured I'd see what ya'll had to say about this matter!
BTW, it is a very good buy, but I got alot of other things cookin' now (and it's summer!
), so I don't want to get into this deal with the easy assumption that I'll being doing rebuilds soon. 
Still looking at buying this 96 Formula 382 SR 1 with HP500's. The sellers claim that the motors have less than 20 hours, but can't produce receipts! In the last 2 weeks, they've already had to replace the lifters and re-adjust the valves on one motor. The compression is good @ 165 "across the board", although I didn't have it checked myself. The hour meters read like 650 or so.
Before I spend any more time, money or effort, I figured I'd see what ya'll had to say about this matter!
BTW, it is a very good buy, but I got alot of other things cookin' now (and it's summer!
), so I don't want to get into this deal with the easy assumption that I'll being doing rebuilds soon.
06-08-2006 | 07:09 AM
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Re: How many hours have you gotten out of your...
I was originally told you could get 1000 hours before total rebuild. However if they were having problems with a spring, the springs should be replaced in all the cylinders, also I would say 650hrs would be a good time to replace lifters, springs, and go through the motors really good.
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06-08-2006 | 09:59 AM
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Re: How many hours have you gotten out of your...
Originally Posted by formula1
How many hours have you gotten out of your HP500?
Still looking at buying this 96 Formula 382 SR 1 with HP500's. The sellers claim that the motors have less than 20 hours, but can't produce receipts! In the last 2 weeks, they've already had to replace the lifters and re-adjust the valves on one motor. The compression is good @ 165 "across the board", although I didn't have it checked myself. The hour meters read like 650 or so.
Before I spend any more time, money or effort, I figured I'd see what ya'll had to say about this matter!
BTW, it is a very good buy, but I got alot of other things cookin' now (and it's summer! ), so I don't want to get into this deal with the easy assumption that I'll being doing rebuilds soon.
Still looking at buying this 96 Formula 382 SR 1 with HP500's. The sellers claim that the motors have less than 20 hours, but can't produce receipts! In the last 2 weeks, they've already had to replace the lifters and re-adjust the valves on one motor. The compression is good @ 165 "across the board", although I didn't have it checked myself. The hour meters read like 650 or so.
Before I spend any more time, money or effort, I figured I'd see what ya'll had to say about this matter!
BTW, it is a very good buy, but I got alot of other things cookin' now (and it's summer!
), so I don't want to get into this deal with the easy assumption that I'll being doing rebuilds soon. 
06-08-2006 | 10:56 AM
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Re: How many hours have you gotten out of your...
I have a pair of 1997 HP500s with ~70 hours on them, in the classifieds. Sorry for the shameless plug.
Thanks,
Dean
Thanks,
Dean
