Originally Posted by maxshuty

It really sounded like a V8 - but it was a rust bucket WIP like I said. Perhaps it was a V6 and the exhaust was rusted out? I would have thought I would walked all over an older Camaro V6 rust bucket though - if you figure that with age and the obvious fact the car wasn't taken car of and is just now being re-done I fugre that a car like that would lose quite a bit of it's get-up-and-go factor. I recently sold my old '97 Mazda 626 to my friend and I timed it - the car does ZERO to 60 in 21 seconds. It was a rust bucket, and clearly it lost a lot of horsepower over the years... This guy at least kept up decently which is what made me think it was a V8. But heck I know nothing about them Camaro's so if you all say it's a sixxer then that's probably what it was. Is there anyway to visually tell the difference between a V6 and a V8 on those cars?

Originally Posted by maxshuty

It really sounded like a V8 - but it was a rust bucket WIP like I said. Perhaps it was a V6 and the exhaust was rusted out? I would have thought I would walked all over an older Camaro V6 rust bucket though - if you figure that with age and the obvious fact the car wasn't taken car of and is just now being re-done I fugre that a car like that would lose quite a bit of it's get-up-and-go factor. I recently sold my old '97 Mazda 626 to my friend and I timed it - the car does ZERO to 60 in 21 seconds. It was a rust bucket, and clearly it lost a lot of horsepower over the years... This guy at least kept up decently which is what made me think it was a V8. But heck I know nothing about them Camaro's so if you all say it's a sixxer then that's probably what it was. Is there anyway to visually tell the difference between a V6 and a V8 on those cars?

Originally Posted by 1.5LofFury

not consistently but the badges on the side of the car. if it's a v6 it won't have one or will just say "Camaro" V8's all say either "Z28", "SS", or "SS by SLP." and just because a car is old and has high mileage doesn't mean anything.

Originally Posted by maxshuty

if you figure that with age and the obvious fact the car wasn't taken car of and is just now being re-done I fugre that a car like that would lose quite a bit of it's get-up-and-go factor.

Originally Posted by TommyV8

My car just turned over 200k last week and I use Fram oil filters. Wanna line 'em up?

Originally Posted by maxshuty

Heck no! Pretty sure you'll kill me haha. Taking care of a car right (oil changes on time, proper maintenance, etc.) will obviously keep a car going how it should regardless of mileage, but when you see a car thats rusted out and in horrible shape I'd say in most cases the engine looks the same... until you run into some rusted out civic that's a sleeper. heh