Luke1834

So i bought the car being told it was supposedly bone stock. But when taking my valve covers off i saw some nice gold

My question is there any way to tell if the springs are stock ? Thanks alot!

Slow94Formula

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This gets me thinking, maybe I should take my valve covers off and I'll be lucky... lol probably not.

fex77k

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Well he did a throttle body bypass as well, usually RR aren't the first modification people do. I hope those aren't stock springs.

Luke1834

haha i cant figure this out the hole car is completly stock exept for this? i dont understand why somebody would do this? maybe they were about to put a cam in and then stopped.

Luke1834

I noticed that red cap? i didnt know if that was how 93 camaros came? What does bypassing usually mean?

fex77k

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are they 1.5 or 1.6's. He might have been working his way to a cam if those are still stock springs.

Slow94Formula

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Coolant isn't routed through the throttle body, meaning that the air entering the intake isn't being warmed up by the hot coolant.

Luke1834

Gotchya, so there is no way to tell stock springs from aftermarket ones

Luke1834

They are 1.6's

gregrob

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Yes, just look at them n compare them to stock ones... Alternatively you could take one off n pressure test it.

fex77k

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Lets hope those aren't stock springs with a cam.

post some more pictures so we can see what else has been done.

Luke1834

The car def. doesnt have a cam it sure as hell doesnt sound like it, sounds stock, i have to find an lt1 stock spring and compare it to them, What is the lt1 stock pushrod length ?

SS RRR

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Believe it or not there are cams out there that are mild enough to sound stock yet do surprisingly well over other cams that yield a choppy idle.

fex77k

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7.200

robsquikz28

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nice find

gregrob

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This ^

Luke1834

Well i will let you guys know when i pull my cam out this weekend, i just feel like its weird the car stilll has the stock exhaust and everything, just weid that that would be the previous owners first mod

speed_demon24

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My car had ported heads,springs,rockers on it when I bought it, the rest was 100% stock down to the paper filter. It was a nice surprise I found when I did my first cam swap.

vetteboy99

Its true, You prolly have a cam, When I bought my z06, I was told it was stock, I came to put it a cam in it, I found out it was a very small cam that was pushin good numbers.

DAVE00

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Not necessarily as when I first got my car back in 95' and didn't know a damn thing about motors I started throwing all kinds of upgrades to it. One of the first things I did was Crane Gold 1.6RR's and then some headers. After that the real education started as I turned a bearing on the crank and built up a 383. Now I know better but some people just are sold on what they are told by a performance shop and here in Houston back in the day it was MTI.