1994Z28Lt1

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This is for the LT1 guys that dont frequent the cz28.com site i saw this pic of the lifter galley on a well used 158K LT1 and was horrified!

doaberetta

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Bet it still runs though. :-)

1994Z28Lt1

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actually the guy mentioned it runs fine, burns some oil, but now is having oil pressure probs since seafoaming or doing some sort of engine flush

Formula96

thats about what mine looked like at 160,XXX... still ran good though...

TAEnvy

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Mine had 110 and used to be supercharged and it was spotless.

I just run good oil and ocassionally do an oil flush. My buddy said my 110K LT1 looked better under the valve covers and in the lifter valley than his 30K 2.4 from his scion.

Mighty Whitey

looks a little worse than mine did after 80k...

lol, funny thing, I just pulled my 132k mile TBI 350 apart, and you could eat off the internals of the motor in it.

my lt1? I totally forgot about the 2 lower head bolts in the heads because they were so covered-up with oil sludge!

mmm....

97badass

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a buddy and i pulled the intake off his old chevy truck and that engine looks spotless compared to his! it was so bad it was full!!! and we ended up chiseling the **** out to get to the lifters the engine blew...i wonder why but yeah that doesnt look too pretty.

1997bird

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Looks like he has been running some Pennzoil/Quaker State/ or Havoline (kinda doubt the last one here, it is usually hardened like carbon deposits) engine oil. I've seen alot of used motors and everyone that has looked like that, likes one of the above mentioned oils.

TwoFast4Lv

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We just tore one down with 250K miles that looked better then that! It still had the stock Opti and 125K on a twin disk

leadfoot4

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Looks like there was a little gasket leakage around the intake ports, pulling oil into the intakes....


I run Shell and or Havoline oil, whichever is "on special" at my local parts house. I change it every 2000 miles, and I have only 70,000 miles on the car, but mine looks NOTHING like that. I know because I just put another intake gasket set on it.....every 3 years, as the RTV gets cooked by the EGR tube.

JoeliusZ28

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someones oil changing habbits were a little lacking..

Jditlfm

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when i did the intake gasket on mine at 140,000k It was clean as can be. Thats sludge is from lack of maintenance or abuse.

Hot94Z28

I have always used Quaker State and I pulled the valve covers not that long ago and had the intake off and it was spotless. My old 91 Camaro has 220,000 miles on it and still going my dad has that car now. I have always used Quaker State on that car also.

CamaroRacing12

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wow disgusting

lt170chevelle

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good god thats cruddy...mine at 80,000 was really clean. Must have dropped the ball on frequent oil changes lol

LT1

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Geeze! Ive had intake off all my cars nothing like this, its totaly lack of maintenance looks like burnt oil in the lifter gallery.

Puck

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Horribly maintained car, I do not care what the owner says its maintenance history was.

I tore down my engine at around 155k on the odo and the lifter valley was almost spotless. After the rebuild, 3k miles in everything still looked as it did when assembled - bot the heads, and intake.

These things last forever with proper maintanence.

chevy94c

Damn that doesnt look good.

blackz93

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Mine had 270,000 on it and didn't look as bad as that one!

halucinator

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Yea that is bad. Lack of frequent oil changes will do that. I actually did an oil change on a vehicle and it was coming out like thick mud it was so bad. Didn't feel bad for them though, persons fault they don't take care of their vehicles.