Ok guys I am at my wits end, I got the new engine all together and I am having issues with oil not getting up to the heads, I primed it before and got some oil, now I put it in the car and nothing. I started it and heard the horad noise coming form the heads, so I took the V/c off and the heads were dry. so I took the intake back off and primed it with a drill and oil is getting to the lower section of the engine just not coming up to the heads via the lifters. I am running the ls7 lifters, chromoly pushrods, pro mag NSA RR. all that is new, and new oil pump, when I turn it with the drill I am getting oil out of the cam oiling hole, and when I pulled the lifters they are all wet with oil from the center of the engine...... I was wondering should I beable to push in on the lifters?????I cant figuel out what the dral is, am thinking about puting in the old lifters to see if I get oil through them, or will I not be able to get enough pressure to go up the lifter and push rod? I thought I should be able to, and though I remembered it working before

 

Are you using a priming tool? Did your engine have all of the oil plugs in it. I have seen engines that wouldn't build pressure because the oil plugs were left out in the front of the engine.

 

it is getting oil pressure 60 psi

 

it looks like with lifters out that oil is only coming out of the #7 lifter hole