i just drove my car for the first time tonight after building my ls vtec motor. 99 bottom end with 00 si head. EVERYTHING is new from the pumps to the gaskets. ive got really low oil pressure and the car feels slugish. i pulled the oil filter off and it doesnt look like the oil was circulating as it should. went and bought 2 more oil filters tonight and the oil is circulating through the filter now but it sounds like the head is starving for oil. (loud ass lifter ticks) any body encounter this problem before? also my car was a obd0 crx converted to obd1 when did the swap.

specs on the motor
BRAND NEW
rings/bearings
99 ls bottom end with
gsr water pump
gsr oil pump
gsr pistons
used stock ls rods/crank
new kms crank girdle

00 si head
new valve stem seals

 

Did you plug the port on the bottom of the head? And did you make sure the oil passage orifice was in place in the block?

 

head was pluged when i bought it. what oil passage orifice are you talking about? just unclear what you mean by that

 

on the block where it meets the head towards the back there is a metal insert.. it's between cyl 2&3 on the intake side..

 

should i have taken it out? i know what your talking about.

 

I know you have to take that oil jet out of the block when putting a vtec head on a non-vtec block...on d-series.

Don't know about b series though.

 

i had a b16 block in my garage and that block had the same thing as a ls block. but a gsr block doesnt have it.

 

are you running a oil feed line to the head ? that would help

 

You say the oil pressure is low.
What were the bearing clearances when you put the motor together?

 

ya i do have a ls vtc converion kit. and i used a stock ls crank with new standard bearings