CHE Rocker Arm Bushing Upgrade

[Caswell239]

the trunion failure is an extremely common issue on these cars. just look up trunnion upgrades. CFD has had 3 sets fail so far.

[CFD]

Originally Posted by Caswell239

the trunion failure is an extremely common issue on these cars. just look up trunnion upgrades. CFD has had 3 sets fail so far.

I've had a few more than three fail lol. My first failure was when I was stock, after a second one I went with the trunion upgrade, many more failures than stock. One thing is when the stock rockers failed they would click away, no big deal, swapped the culprit out with new ones, the needle bearings stayed contained in the rocker. With the Comp upgrades, when they failed the bearings broke apart and did a number on the engine.

[Trob85]

Originally Posted by Nighthawk89

That's odd. I've had two buddies throw their needle bearings this past year.

Weird I have friends that have stock ones living under 1000 hp nitrous cars and more than a few that just have the comp cams upgrade living in their drag only cars for several years now.

[Nighthawk89]

Originally Posted by Trob85

Weird I have friends that have stock ones living under 1000 hp nitrous cars and more than a few that just have the comp cams upgrade living in their drag only cars for several years now.

My buddy just had an Oil pump failure on his newly supercharged camaro that he hardly drives. My oil pump is functioning fine and I'm almost at 40k miles...

Needless to say, I see your point but when i have 2 close buddies both have failures and i do a simple google search and find more things on it, I'm going to go the route of least resistance and spend the extra Coin.. Just my 2 Cents!

[Bo White]

I dont know of any failures of my friends either, rockers or pumps but upgrades are piece of mind.

[Nighthawk89]

Originally Posted by Bo White

I dont know of any failures of my friends either, rockers or pumps but upgrades are piece of mind.

That's what I mark it down as. These rocker arm upgrades are a small piece of insurance for something I've already invested plenty of $/time into. There will always be a "IF only" and Hindsight is always 20/20. I'll take my chances with upgraded piece! Lol.

[Unreal]

I have never seen a stock rocker fail besides the known bad ones. I have seen plenty of comp ones fail. In the case of the comp upgrade, it is worse than what you are replacing.

Now CHE/BTR and the others don't seem to fail, but still seems like flushing money down the toilet for no reason.

[Nighthawk89]

Originally Posted by Unreal

I have never seen a stock rocker fail besides the known bad ones. I have seen plenty of comp ones fail. In the case of the comp upgrade, it is worse than what you are replacing.

Now CHE/BTR and the others don't seem to fail, but still seems like flushing money down the toilet for no reason.

Everyone has their own opinion on the subject. But after personally having 2 close friends fail (one stock/one trunion) I decided to research the matter. CHE seemed to be the best option for the $. Also, while on the subject of money down the toliet.. Couldn't one argue most every modification could be considered as such?

Do it right the first time or don't do it at all is my motto..

[Unreal]

Not at all. Some upgrades have very noticeable effects. I wouldn't say those are a waste.

[Camaro Dude]

Originally Posted by Nighthawk89

My buddy just had an Oil pump failure on his newly supercharged camaro that he hardly drives. My oil pump is functioning fine and I'm almost at 40k miles...

For stats purposes, what model year, and the mileage the pump failure occurred at?

I'm seeing a common denominator on this forum(where problems are reported ) on year and mileage this occurs at.

[Nighthawk89]

Originally Posted by Caswell239

I will be doing that upgrade aswell. Mine are stripped down and boxed up ready to go just waiting for my build to progress a bit more.
Are you sending them to Che or wcch? I called both and wcch just forwards them to Che since Che won't sell the parts to do it. And wcch tacks on an extra fee. So it's cheaper to go Straight to Che.


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Contact ED at CHE. I posted his email in the original post. He helped me out!

[Nighthawk89]

Picked them up this morning! Stoked!

[Caswell239]

Let's see some pics!


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[Nighthawk89]

Originally Posted by Caswell239

Let's see some pics!


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They are on the first page!