@@thadioushorowitz4210 Nah, the factory installed items looked better to me. Spinners are heavy useless trash. You like those currently installed ? Good for you ! 👍🏻
Jake, I love the way that you are showing up on many Wichita TH-cam channels these days! Is everything OK at home and at work? Please let me know, Jake.
just does video about how trying to fix the engine on the M6 was a bad idea and how going the new engine route is always the right way to go...annnnnnd Camaro..
At least with the Camaro you probably won’t need a full blown repair shop in your back yard and a line of credit on your house like you do with any BMW. Owned a few, never again
BECOMES A HUGE CAR FIXING TH-camR AND THEY CALL YOU TO TEST DRIVE CARS WITH MORE THEN YOUR HOUSE AND CALL YOU TO TAKE JUNK OFF THERE HANDS... IT'S TRUE...
Exactly. I hate it when people don’t take care of their cars. It’s so disrespectful and it’s easy enough to do so there is no excuse. It’s not as if it costs a fortune to do either. Regular good quality oil changes and keep the coolant topped up. Simple! Cheap nasty tires as well. Why do that? It’s like asking an athlete to run the 400 meters with a diet of burgers, dehydrated, in a pair of crocs. On the plus side it means you can find a bargain out there if the engine and turbos on cars that have them isn’t toast.
I'm testing a 2002 Tahoe on once a year oil changes it's got 240k on the clock no issues.... I've also had it for 140k of those miles .. . I give it one oil change a year and again no issues
JR: I always just swap the engine instead of trying to fix them. Also JR: I just bought two cars in a row that need engines and I'm going to just fix them.
True. But he's expanding his horizons, facing a new personal challenge & generating new content. At least this car is in the solar system of possibility to make a return to the road at a semi-reasonable cost. This build can potentially help a lot more drivers. If it were me, not being able to save the BMW M6 would tick me off enough to try the rule break again. But yes, these engines seem to be basket cases. Guess we'll see... Stay tuned.
@@sleepyhollow783 Yeah, after years of driving VWs, I was amazed how much less it cost to repair a Ford. What he quoted the cost of a new engine was peanuts compared to some of the European performance cars.
I hate it when people don’t take care of their cars. It’s so disrespectful and it’s easy enough to do so there is no excuse. It’s not as if it costs a fortune to do either. Regular good quality oil changes and keep the coolant topped up. Simple! Cheap nasty tires as well. Why do that? It’s like asking an athlete to run the 400 meters with a diet of burgers, dehydrated, in a pair of crocs. On the plus side it means you can find a bargain out there if the engine and turbos on cars that have them isn’t toast.
I had one that blew the engine 437 miles over the max mileage allowed on the warranty. I just swapped in an engine Cadillac used in one of their cars that I got at the salvage yard. It was actually a Corvette engine, installed at the factory. That engine/tranny combo now has 187,886 miles on above whatever it had on it when the Caddy was wrecked. A fast reliable car with that change, and twice as fast as the “high horsepower V6 the dealer talked me into. Mileage isn’t enough worse or different from published numbers on the new car winter sticker to make me regret the change.
A word of warning from someone who has done those chains, do not turn the engine backwards at all costs!! If the vvt sprockets are good, the cam will spring backwards ruining them when it hits the stops damaging them internally Make sure all adjustments are made in the forward direction except VERY small ones when lining up the chain!! If you have doubts about the integrity of the sprockets, change them while the motor is apart the first time!!
Shyt I eat shyt up in this same car I beat GT mustangs I even beat a SS, I beat Challengers,Chargers ,Hondas you know those lil Chinese young people cars🤦🏾♂️ I have shyt in my car I figure eight all of that it's very aggressive. I get 0to60 in 4 seconds this is a good car facts💯💯🎩
If it uses the same head units that were across the various lines you could get navigation but through Onstar. It would do turn by turn nav on the simple screen. That's with the lower end models too. Fairly certain at least on the Buicks and Cadillacs you could have the fullscreen nav as well prior to 2012. I think I recall looking at a 2010 Enclave with one. Traverse had a DvD navigation around then. I would think the Camaro would have similar setups for the same off the shelf stuff via GM. Hell GM has had remote start since at least the 90's on most vehicles as well as a heads up display. No clue why they don't put it into more models at this point. I don't know maybe the Camaro's were just left with nothing and you're right. Seems unlikely though.
@@Chris-hw4mq AN LS swap on one of these is a nightmare if you want to keep functionality of everything. There have only been a few successful ones done.
@@InFiD3ViL1 also, LS swaps have been done to death IMO. Time to move on to something else. I understand they're a dime a dozen, but so are other engines.
At least you can get to the timing chains without removing the engine. We had a Traverse and Acadia in the shop back to back, both needing a timing chains. Droped the engine/trans/sub-frame on both. Then the replacement timing chains on the Traverse failed/stretched again, so we had to do that job again under warranty.
@@trummscott The one I talked about had probably $5K worth of work put into it in just one year. Off the top of my head it needed the timing chains, a cat, 4 tires, brakes, 2 wheel bearings, steering rack, and rear upper control arms. We advised them to get rid of it before doing the work. Why they didn't is beyond me. To anybody else reading this: DO NOT BUY ONE!!!
True story from an old man: Back when the first Camaro came out, the Lions club in my hometown of Wadsworth Ohio raffled off a new red RS. I was a pump jockey at a SOHIO station ( gas at 34.9), where the car was parked. Every night at closing ( ten PM) I got to drive the red Camaro into the service bay for the night. Six cylinder, two speed power glide trans! Gas tank lid was the “RS” badge. My name is Robert Stroud, and I really wanted that car. Mostly because of the gas cap! Best job I ever had. Paid my way through Kent State working there and commuting to school. Met my wife of 43 years there. Good Times ! N.E.OH Bob.
Exactly this. With the amount of sludge he is talking about, no amount of product is going to get rid of all the solid stuff in the engine and there's a high probability that it will clog an oil gallery somewhere. He needs to swap that engine or take the one he has apart and clean the hell out of it.
Hi JR, fellow 2011 Camaro RS owner here. You got a steal, am looking forward to seeing what you can do with this. Be sure to get rid of those awful vinyl decals, too.
Since that engine has been neglected do yourself a favor and clean the intake valves while you are there. Have done several @ that mileage causing random missfires. Edit really the hardest part about working on those cars is reaching over the front end lol
@@Stressless2023 Not likely, no specific part failure on it, just 133K miles of chain stretch causing a P0008. actually no sludge except on top of passenger side valve cover. Definitely could use a better pvc system and a catch can....
"la chica fresita" "the strawberry girl" thats the car freshener from the 80s in my country. All my family's car had that scent. It reminds me my mom Fiat Ritmo.
Decent looking Camaro. But I'm old an old-school mechanic. Personally I don't EVER look to have something this new, (with over 100 different computer modules on it) unless I win the damb lottery ! AND MAYBE NOT EVEN THEN ! !
I hate it when people don’t take care of their cars. It’s so disrespectful and it’s easy enough to do so there is no excuse. It’s not as if it costs a fortune to do either. Regular good quality oil changes and keep the coolant topped up. Simple! Cheap nasty tires as well. Why do that? It’s like asking an athlete to run the 400 meters with a diet of burgers, dehydrated, in a pair of crocs. On the plus side it means you can find a bargain out there if the engine and turbos on cars that have them isn’t toast.
The LLT is notdirect injected but they are Variable valve timing though.. they went DI with the LFX like in my '15 Colorado and they got rid of the timing chain issues as well. The LLT isint a bad motor at all.. its mostly the owners that doesint take care of them.
Looking forward to how this plays out. I've recently thought of picking up a 'stang or Camaro V6 for cheap thrills. Depending on how this goes...might steer me to a fixer upper as well. GL JR!!
Remember the Mustang 3.7 has the stupid chain driven internal water pump, so it could be a wash at high mileage with replacement of that vs the timing chain
So happy you got one of these!! Remove those hockey stripes and PLEASE get rid of those rims and tires. You CAN rest your arm on the window as I do in mine....
Old School trick for either water or sludge in the engine. Drain and fill with diesel fuel. Run for a short time, drain and repeat. Diesel lubricates, absorbs water and cleans. Its cheap. I've done it on boats that had cracked manifolds to pull all the water out.
Take to pan off and the valve covers and run a solvent through and get out all the sludge. Put high quality oil and a fuel additive and run it for 3k miles. Then change oil, this with the time chains could do a lot. Cheers
My dude, seafoam the fuck out of the engine. You'd be super surprised how much of that sludge will go bye bye with seafome. May take 2 treatments but well worth it.
That very cool, I'm looking for a budget Camaro, I have a 67 RS... As soon as my daughter get out of college... Dad is getting a Newer Camaro.... Really looking forward to this project.
The RS appearance package is available on the LT which was a step up from the LS (base). Do you have the 1LT or 2LT? It includes HID headlamps with integrated LED halo rings, a rear spoiler, specific taillamps and 20-inch wheels with a Midnight Silver painted finish. The stock wheels really didn't look all that great.
Hey JR, I did a detailed video on the gotchas of that job on the High Feature V6 (3.6) in wifes 2009 enclave - it may be better for a RWD setup, but it was not good times th-cam.com/video/vvXxaFzvYnE/w-d-xo.html
Drain the oil, change the filter. Re fill with ATF. Start engine and run it at 2-3K rpm (DO NOT DRIVE VEHICLE) for about 5 full minutes. Let idle another 5 minutes, then run it at 2-3K again for another 5. Drain oil and change filter. Add lowest viscosity allowed Oil (i.e. 0w20) That *should* kill about 60% of the sludge. Change the oil &filter again in about 1000 miles, and from there out, change oil & filter often. As you said the "oil life monitor" does a pretty good job of running the oil past it's best life. I dont trust them AT ALL.
back when you could get a V6 in more of a premium trim - was sad when Ford dropped the premium trim in the V6 Mustangs - for me I used to use them as "road burners" getting around 28MPG and reasonably quick. (Yes, I've owned GTs too) and would buy over an EB or V6 but I was going through new cars about every 18 months putting about 50k-60k in that time for a sales job - the V6 'Stangs were great for piling on the miles and then "dumping" them at CarMax for more than I owed - I'm sure they auctioned them off....
HELP BRO CAN YOU ADVICE WHAT TO DO Have the same car and it's turning me crazy first issue is the car idle is not stable rpm move little and can see the engine is vibrating little second if the engine is run and in drive but not moving full brake strange sound coming from somewhere if shift to neutral the sound disappear shift to reverse sound back many mechanical advice me to change engine mount are causing the problem third issue the car run good at the speed of 40km and at 73km rpm around 1200 to 1300 approximately a strange sound coming and feel like the car is vibrating Help plz 😭😭😭
As an Australian it humours me to see Americans giving the 3.6 some crap. We do the same here in Australia and have nicknamed the engine "Rattletec" as they tend to rattle and tick like crazy when something is on the way out. We also make fun of them for chewing through chains and its not uncommon to be hated on when you suggest putting an exhaust on one (the sound can be a hit or miss). I for one like the engine and don't have anything bad to say since my daily which also serves as my project and weekend hills cruiser has the early version of the 3.6 and its still going strong at 270,000km (168,000miles). Though we do love and much prefer the Ecotec 3.8 (3800 series). And fun fact, our 3800 Commodores are RWD so you can do massive burnouts with them. Its a great bloody motor and you cant kill them. We nicknamed it "Ecojet", which seems fitting.
I've worked on some trucks with pretty bad sludge build up. one was on a F-150 with the 3.5 N/A and the guy who drove it for this paving company only did 2 oil changes in 80K miles. it was badd underneath the valve cover and we priced out an engine for it.
How many shades of silver is it ?????? OK I own a V6 Camaro and it actually runs extremely well. However there are 3 billion GM cars with that engine please replace it !!!!!
I met a guy at a AM PM store, and while talking about his crappy truck he said when he went to repair the drivers side window he found a big bag of METH! He looked really happy, and HIGH!
Buy John Ross’ cars at your own risk. That’s where hoovie gets his cars. JR buys the won’makes. Chrysler and GM to name 2. I don’t think GM makes the Camaro anymore.t
I would suspect that if a dealership said it needed a new engine that all that really means is it needs a tune-up! "Stealerships" are notorious for either not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground or their just plane up dishonest and are just trying to RIP you off!! I took my 1997 gmc Sierra in a dealership for an oil change and after what seemed a really long time for a simple oil change the service manager came and told me I needed a new battery @$ 225 dollars and while they were "test driving it they noticed my transmission was slipping and wanted to know if I was interested in having them do a diagnoses service that cost $ 150 dollars! My battery was only 2 weeks old and was totally fine and my transmission was 8 months old on a rebuild and had 8 months shy of 3 years left on its warranty and I can assure you did not slip or anything else for that matter! This was just one story out of many I have over the years of dealing with" dealerships"! They all suck! I recommend only using them if its convenient for you and always get a second opinion if they say something is wrong that you cant disprove yourself.
There was a 2011 rs here in tulsa I tryed to buy a few days ago for 2000 it had the same problem! If you do have to replace the engine they are expensive for such a little engine.
Go buy 5 quarts of diesel "fuel" dump the oil, let it run for 15 min to warm up then drop that and check the junk that comes out, I've done it to several motors, even my STI and it works a treat ... cheap too.
A V6 automatic Camaro owned by a woman who smoked a lot of weed and never changed the oil... that's not stereotypical or anything. She was probably a dental hygienist as well. ;)
I’m loving these type of buys
Always something interesting
Auto Auction Rebuilds as it always seems to be
Those wheels look cheap AF. Like something I would cast on my back yard out of smashed Coca-Cola cans and cooking pots.
Even the stock steelys look better lol.
I suppose you were hoping for spinners? Those rims look fine.
@@thadioushorowitz4210 Nah, the factory installed items looked better to me. Spinners are heavy useless trash.
You like those currently installed ? Good for you ! 👍🏻
That Camaro needs those wheels shaved right off 🤮
Jake, I love the way that you are showing up on many Wichita TH-cam channels these days! Is everything OK at home and at work? Please let me know, Jake.
Wheels look fine.
@@thadioushorowitz4210 I was thinking the same thing, I like them. Maybe a different tire, but the rims look fine to me.
Beautiful camaro & what a good deal I can't wait to see it running with no xmas lights
just does video about how trying to fix the engine on the M6 was a bad idea and how going the new engine route is always the right way to go...annnnnnd Camaro..
At least with the Camaro you probably won’t need a full blown repair shop in your back yard and a line of credit on your house like you do with any BMW. Owned a few, never again
Worst case is he call J & J and gets a new engine shipped to him and he swaps it.
Would the dealer have let you scan it before you bought it
Dude you got to drop the engine. Take it half a part. Worst thing next to Fords V6 water pump issue
Ford v6 water pumps are ridiculous. Cheap junk
Zachary Slamp, it’s really bad. I have a 2014 Taurus with 40k miles and water pump failed.
@@carlife6529 I work as a fleet mechanic for county government, which includes police cars. I think the lowest mileage one weve had is 33xxx.
You should turbo it
only 4000? thats a lot of money
hey can I have the wrench you found?
I don't known..sound like another hoovies.. a very nice GM product...all kind of code.
Daaaaamn id be all over that for 4g..
Shiiiit id trade him my modded perfectly running 04 mcs for it ( once fixed )
Throw the microfiber towlels away? Just wash them! You can never have enough.
I never find deals like this . I'd love to get a project car like that for 4k.
BECOMES A HUGE CAR FIXING TH-camR AND THEY CALL YOU TO TEST DRIVE CARS WITH MORE THEN YOUR HOUSE AND CALL YOU TO TAKE JUNK OFF THERE HANDS... IT'S TRUE...
Yeah, and then yank that shitty V6 outta there and drop a junkyard LS in there :P
@@RyanRoadReaper he should go to CoPart and buy a rear-ended Camaro and swap the engine and trans.
Move to the midwest these deals are all over lol
buy a g35 project car, their super cheap
Oil is cheap, engines aren't
Exactly. I hate it when people don’t take care of their cars. It’s so disrespectful and it’s easy enough to do so there is no excuse. It’s not as if it costs a fortune to do either. Regular good quality oil changes and keep the coolant topped up. Simple! Cheap nasty tires as well. Why do that? It’s like asking an athlete to run the 400 meters with a diet of burgers, dehydrated, in a pair of crocs.
On the plus side it means you can find a bargain out there if the engine and turbos on cars that have them isn’t toast.
I tell customers all the time "maintenance is always cheaper than repairs and replacements".
Agreed... Oil schedule for my car is 6mos 6k I change it every 4k
I'm testing a 2002 Tahoe on once a year oil changes it's got 240k on the clock no issues.... I've also had it for 140k of those miles ..
. I give it one oil change a year and again no issues
engine only 1200 for v6 Camaro
JR: I always just swap the engine instead of trying to fix them.
Also JR: I just bought two cars in a row that need engines and I'm going to just fix them.
True. But he's expanding his horizons, facing a new personal challenge & generating new content. At least this car is in the solar system of possibility to make a return to the road at a semi-reasonable cost. This build can potentially help a lot more drivers.
If it were me, not being able to save the BMW M6 would tick me off enough to try the rule break again.
But yes, these engines seem to be basket cases. Guess we'll see... Stay tuned.
@@sleepyhollow783 Yeah, after years of driving VWs, I was amazed how much less it cost to repair a Ford. What he quoted the cost of a new engine was peanuts compared to some of the European performance cars.
Lutz the putz is right
I hate it when people don’t take care of their cars. It’s so disrespectful and it’s easy enough to do so there is no excuse. It’s not as if it costs a fortune to do either. Regular good quality oil changes and keep the coolant topped up. Simple! Cheap nasty tires as well. Why do that? It’s like asking an athlete to run the 400 meters with a diet of burgers, dehydrated, in a pair of crocs.
On the plus side it means you can find a bargain out there if the engine and turbos on cars that have them isn’t toast.
I had one that blew the engine 437 miles over the max mileage allowed on the warranty. I just swapped in an engine Cadillac used in one of their cars that I got at the salvage yard. It was actually a Corvette engine, installed at the factory. That engine/tranny combo now has 187,886 miles on above whatever it had on it when the Caddy was wrecked. A fast reliable car with that change, and twice as fast as the “high horsepower V6 the dealer talked me into. Mileage isn’t enough worse or different from published numbers on the new car winter sticker to make me regret the change.
A word of warning from someone who has done those chains, do not turn the engine backwards at all costs!!
If the vvt sprockets are good, the cam will spring backwards ruining them when it hits the stops damaging them internally
Make sure all adjustments are made in the forward direction except VERY small ones when lining up the chain!!
If you have doubts about the integrity of the sprockets, change them while the motor is apart the first time!!
lol, you really didn’t learn your lesson of breaking your own rule of “don’t fix the engine”? 😝
You practically got a Camaro for free once you add the free peanut butter, water bottle, microfibers and USB cable!!!!
Dont forget that wrench!
Was waiting for this video, since Hoovie accidently pointed it out.
Hoovies channel has nothing on the wizard
Accidentally pointed it out how?
@@210SAi Hoovie visited on the last M6 video and asked about it. JR said the neighbors must've got a new car.
@@Not-Great-at-Gaming still to find out why the 944 is broken too 😁
@@yourgay3226 That too!
Dealer: this car is a hot turd. JR: I can shine that turd! lol
Shyt I eat shyt up in this same car I beat GT mustangs I even beat a SS, I beat Challengers,Chargers ,Hondas you know those lil Chinese young people cars🤦🏾♂️ I have shyt in my car I figure eight all of that it's very aggressive. I get 0to60 in 4 seconds this is a good car facts💯💯🎩
nav didn’t come out until 2012 or 2013 and you could get the retro aux gauges on an RS, not just the SS. In fact, you can swap them in easily.
If it uses the same head units that were across the various lines you could get navigation but through Onstar. It would do turn by turn nav on the simple screen. That's with the lower end models too. Fairly certain at least on the Buicks and Cadillacs you could have the fullscreen nav as well prior to 2012. I think I recall looking at a 2010 Enclave with one. Traverse had a DvD navigation around then. I would think the Camaro would have similar setups for the same off the shelf stuff via GM. Hell GM has had remote start since at least the 90's on most vehicles as well as a heads up display. No clue why they don't put it into more models at this point. I don't know maybe the Camaro's were just left with nothing and you're right. Seems unlikely though.
He should just LS swap the V6 dont mess with gauges
@@Chris-hw4mq AN LS swap on one of these is a nightmare if you want to keep functionality of everything. There have only been a few successful ones done.
@@InFiD3ViL1 also, LS swaps have been done to death IMO. Time to move on to something else. I understand they're a dime a dozen, but so are other engines.
At least you can get to the timing chains without removing the engine. We had a Traverse and Acadia in the shop back to back, both needing a timing chains. Droped the engine/trans/sub-frame on both. Then the replacement timing chains on the Traverse failed/stretched again, so we had to do that job again under warranty.
They are pretty easy to drop out though.
Traverses are piles and I have one that needs new chains again.
Ahhhh, GM quality
@@trummscott The one I talked about had probably $5K worth of work put into it in just one year. Off the top of my head it needed the timing chains, a cat, 4 tires, brakes, 2 wheel bearings, steering rack, and rear upper control arms. We advised them to get rid of it before doing the work. Why they didn't is beyond me. To anybody else reading this: DO NOT BUY ONE!!!
Money making . grave train
True story from an old man: Back when the first Camaro came out, the Lions club in my hometown of Wadsworth Ohio raffled off a new red RS. I was a pump jockey at a SOHIO station ( gas at 34.9), where the car was parked. Every night at closing ( ten PM) I got to drive the red Camaro into the service bay for the night. Six cylinder, two speed power glide trans! Gas tank lid was the “RS” badge. My name is Robert Stroud, and I really wanted that car. Mostly because of the gas cap! Best job I ever had. Paid my way through Kent State working there and commuting to school. Met my wife of 43 years there. Good Times ! N.E.OH Bob.
This camaro seems 3000 Dollars too expensive.
@Paul Wieringa Fixed
John Phillips ...not a great video tho....”I bought a car......nothing wrong with it.....at all!!”
John Phillips where
Something something notification squad. Definitely one of the channels I get eager to watch each time I see the upload!
I want that car JR!!!! I will buy this from you if the price is right and it gets fixed!? (I'm only over in St. Louis!)
Remember what happened to the bmw!! Just swap the engine!
And he has an engine to do so...project Rolls, no smoke!
Exactly this. With the amount of sludge he is talking about, no amount of product is going to get rid of all the solid stuff in the engine and there's a high probability that it will clog an oil gallery somewhere. He needs to swap that engine or take the one he has apart and clean the hell out of it.
I love these Watch JR Go budget builds! It looks like the passenger door was possibly painted with a slight mismatch paint at some point.
It’s not the body lines?
Good catch. I was going to mention it too.
Scrolled through all the comments just to see if I was only one who noticed also looks like rear bumper was painted at the same time
AGMARO15 Definitely a possibility
Hi JR, fellow 2011 Camaro RS owner here. You got a steal, am looking forward to seeing what you can do with this. Be sure to get rid of those awful vinyl decals, too.
I like the decals
Might be the play on lighting, passenger door looks like a different color.
Since that engine has been neglected do yourself a favor and clean the intake valves while you are there. Have done several @ that mileage causing random missfires.
Edit really the hardest part about working on those cars is reaching over the front end lol
On the drive home, did anyone else think the passenger door looks like it was repainted the wrong color?
Should do a catch can for this beast, all DI cars should have them tbh. Nice project John!
Love the new car hope this one works out good !!! Did I miss the sludge pics?
I have a feeling JR will get this car fixed even if he has to throw therolls LS in it or get a replacement engine from J&J.
Just did the chains on my 3.6 in my CTS... most of 2 weekends, but not hard. Just a lot of stuff to strip of the engine and then reinstall...
Do you think it could have been from neglected oil changes or letting the oil run low?
@@Stressless2023 Not likely, no specific part failure on it, just 133K miles of chain stretch causing a P0008. actually no sludge except on top of passenger side valve cover. Definitely could use a better pvc system and a catch can....
@@mastersonjf Yup, needs a much bigger pvc vent.
V6 camaro? Damn son is your colt 1911 chambered for 9mm instead of 45ACP? LOLOLOLOLOLOL
JR the only person to wear T-shirts not like this and buy a car at the dealership not from dealer.
today's show was a "not" show.i watched it nevertheless
I've been makin' my face less hairy with Harry's for years now.
"la chica fresita" "the strawberry girl" thats the car freshener from the 80s in my country. All my family's car had that scent. It reminds me my mom Fiat Ritmo.
Decent looking Camaro.
But I'm old an old-school mechanic.
Personally I don't EVER look to have something this new, (with over 100 different computer modules on it) unless I win the damb lottery !
AND MAYBE NOT EVEN THEN ! !
I use Harry’s razors-they are fantastic!
Thanks for the invite guys.
I hate it when people don’t take care of their cars. It’s so disrespectful and it’s easy enough to do so there is no excuse. It’s not as if it costs a fortune to do either. Regular good quality oil changes and keep the coolant topped up. Simple! Cheap nasty tires as well. Why do that? It’s like asking an athlete to run the 400 meters with a diet of burgers, dehydrated, in a pair of crocs.
On the plus side it means you can find a bargain out there if the engine and turbos on cars that have them isn’t toast.
FOR SOME REASON, THIS JUST OCCURRED TO ME : Where's Amberghini these days ? Feels like she hasn't been on here in months now that I think about it
I noticed that too. Did she say goodbye and we missed it?
@@jefftreseder4358 too many LS swsps
I take back my comment from the previous video about not using this new camera. Now that you've changed the settings it looks great. Thanks JR
The LLT is notdirect injected but they are Variable valve timing though.. they went DI with the LFX like in my '15 Colorado and they got rid of the timing chain issues as well.
The LLT isint a bad motor at all.. its mostly the owners that doesint take care of them.
The LLT is the direct injected version of the LY7, first one they did 🍻
Looking forward to how this plays out. I've recently thought of picking up a 'stang or Camaro V6 for cheap thrills. Depending on how this goes...might steer me to a fixer upper as well. GL JR!!
Remember the Mustang 3.7 has the stupid chain driven internal water pump, so it could be a wash at high mileage with replacement of that vs the timing chain
@@tomd815 Ah...I didn't think of that. That's for the heads up!!
@@Caladuun no problem! FTR I have a '15 EB Mustang, i'd highly recommend over either V6 for more HP and apparently no grenading issues!
A Canadian built car with hockey sticks on it? You need to rock the double denim when you drive it.
my 80 RS had about half the HP
Ok so listen up all camaros no matter the year replace the spark plug cables with the dealer recommended cables it will stop the misfire
The rear tire looks narrow for the wheel.
just sent a M6 to the junkyard because of a bad engine. instantly proceeds to buy another car with bad engine.
The timing chain failure king! 😂
If I could work on the Camaro with 100 percent Jakes and Watch JR Goes I would pack up the Hash Pipe with Rocky and get all schmoked up.
Hey what is that scanner tablet thing you are using? Where can I get one? Thanks JR!
It’s the Autel Elite, can buy them on Amazon! 🍻
I am enjoying these cars buys so much, I love this Camaro series
Anyone else notice the passenger side door color not matching the rest of the car , accident damage maybe ?
I think the whole car was repainted 🍻
so you decided to break your own rule again? fixing instead of just swapping in a new motor?
you didnt show the pictures the dealer gave you of the sludge. Great video as always
So happy you got one of these!! Remove those hockey stripes and PLEASE get rid of those rims and tires. You CAN rest your arm on the window as I do in mine....
Old School trick for either water or sludge in the engine. Drain and fill with diesel fuel. Run for a short time, drain and repeat. Diesel lubricates, absorbs water and cleans. Its cheap. I've done it on boats that had cracked manifolds to pull all the water out.
Take to pan off and the valve covers and run a solvent through and get out all the sludge. Put high quality oil and a fuel additive and run it for 3k miles. Then change oil, this with the time chains could do a lot. Cheers
I love seeing these poorly cars. V6 engines are sorely underrated. When they work well they can be all you need and more
The v6s are for girls
@@trudeaumustgo1920 yeah? Does yours run well?
Trudeau Must go get Nae Nae’d
@@jeffrogers2180 downhill, with a tail wind and rock hard bike tires
Most j series and 3800 series 2 supercharged would be happy to prove you right
Get advice from the car WIZARD.
My dude, seafoam the fuck out of the engine. You'd be super surprised how much of that sludge will go bye bye with seafome. May take 2 treatments but well worth it.
> It shouldn't be too hard!
*Glares at Audi R8*
Did anybody buy the Copart Kia Optima LX yet?
Nope, still for sale 🍻
That very cool, I'm looking for a budget Camaro, I have a 67 RS... As soon as my daughter get out of college... Dad is getting a Newer Camaro.... Really looking forward to this project.
Please get the v8. The v6 is crap engine.
He has an LS for your 67.
The RS appearance package is available on the LT which was a step up from the LS (base). Do you have the 1LT or 2LT? It includes HID headlamps with integrated LED halo rings, a rear spoiler, specific taillamps and 20-inch wheels with a Midnight Silver painted finish. The stock wheels really didn't look all that great.
Hockey stick stripes, hockey pucks are round. Just sayin, Canadian speaking :)
Hey JR, I did a detailed video on the gotchas of that job on the High Feature V6 (3.6) in wifes 2009 enclave - it may be better for a RWD setup, but it was not good times th-cam.com/video/vvXxaFzvYnE/w-d-xo.html
A V6 Camaro... might as well yank it and drop an Iron Duke 4 in.
You are an insane person. The high feature V6 has 310hp. Aluminum block and heads. This is premium Boomer talk.
Drain the oil, change the filter. Re fill with ATF. Start engine and run it at 2-3K rpm (DO NOT DRIVE VEHICLE) for about 5 full minutes. Let idle another 5 minutes, then run it at 2-3K again for another 5. Drain oil and change filter. Add lowest viscosity allowed Oil (i.e. 0w20) That *should* kill about 60% of the sludge. Change the oil &filter again in about 1000 miles, and from there out, change oil & filter often. As you said the "oil life monitor" does a pretty good job of running the oil past it's best life. I dont trust them AT ALL.
Built in Canada Eh. Those are hockey stick stripes. Not pucks lol 🇨🇦
Might as well try and fix it rather than an engine swap. Why not? Worked great on the M6
back when you could get a V6 in more of a premium trim - was sad when Ford dropped the premium trim in the V6 Mustangs - for me I used to use them as "road burners" getting around 28MPG and reasonably quick. (Yes, I've owned GTs too) and would buy over an EB or V6 but I was going through new cars about every 18 months putting about 50k-60k in that time for a sales job - the V6 'Stangs were great for piling on the miles and then "dumping" them at CarMax for more than I owed - I'm sure they auctioned them off....
HELP BRO CAN YOU ADVICE WHAT TO DO
Have the same car and it's turning me crazy
first issue is the car idle is not stable rpm move little and can see the engine is vibrating little
second if the engine is run and in drive but not moving full brake strange sound coming from somewhere if shift to neutral the sound disappear shift to reverse sound back
many mechanical advice me to change engine mount are causing the problem
third issue the car run good at the speed of 40km and at 73km rpm around 1200 to 1300 approximately a strange sound coming and feel like the car is vibrating
Help plz 😭😭😭
A timing belt, if original from the factory wouldn't cause any of those codes. A timing belt installed 1 tooth off would fuck everything up 😄😂😂
Awesome! Can’t wait for yet another project
As an Australian it humours me to see Americans giving the 3.6 some crap. We do the same here in Australia and have nicknamed the engine "Rattletec" as they tend to rattle and tick like crazy when something is on the way out. We also make fun of them for chewing through chains and its not uncommon to be hated on when you suggest putting an exhaust on one (the sound can be a hit or miss). I for one like the engine and don't have anything bad to say since my daily which also serves as my project and weekend hills cruiser has the early version of the 3.6 and its still going strong at 270,000km (168,000miles). Though we do love and much prefer the Ecotec 3.8 (3800 series). And fun fact, our 3800 Commodores are RWD so you can do massive burnouts with them. Its a great bloody motor and you cant kill them. We nicknamed it "Ecojet", which seems fitting.
I've worked on some trucks with pretty bad sludge build up. one was on a F-150 with the 3.5 N/A and the guy who drove it for this paving company only did 2 oil changes in 80K miles. it was badd underneath the valve cover and we priced out an engine for it.
So, did Harry's give you a script? That was really polished. If that's what it takes to keep you making videos I can deal with it. Love the channel.
Always remember to eat your fruit and vegetables!
How many shades of silver is it ?????? OK I own a V6 Camaro and it actually runs extremely well. However there are 3 billion GM cars with that engine please replace it !!!!!
I love the Camaro. Can’t wait to see more videos on it. Nice buy J.R.
Its simple, if you use conventional oil... 5,000km oil changes. Its not rocket science.
Better to "overmaintain" than to put a new engine in it.
If you haven't already, you should watch what Hoonigan is doing to their project Camaro. 6.6L coal roller. You might find this interesting.
I met a guy at a AM PM store, and while talking about his crappy truck he said when he went to repair the drivers side window he found a big bag of METH! He looked really happy, and HIGH!
Harry s Razor . Great Razors . Thanks for sponsoring JR . Also men’s
Mental Health. Awesome score on this John Ross .
Take a look at a 4.0L ford with overhead cam timing chain swap, engine must come out of the vehicle. Some have 4 chains others have 5 chains.
Buy John Ross’ cars at your own risk. That’s where hoovie gets his cars. JR buys the won’makes. Chrysler and GM to name 2. I don’t think GM makes the Camaro anymore.t
I would love to see you put some royal purple in that thing to see how much sludge it can clean up
V6 Automatic EWWWW
I would suspect that if a dealership said it needed a new engine that all that really means is it needs a tune-up! "Stealerships" are notorious for either not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground or their just plane up dishonest and are just trying to RIP you off!! I took my 1997 gmc Sierra in a dealership for an oil change and after what seemed a really long time for a simple oil change the service manager came and told me I needed a new battery @$ 225 dollars and while they were "test driving it they noticed my transmission was slipping and wanted to know if I was interested in having them do a diagnoses service that cost $ 150 dollars! My battery was only 2 weeks old and was totally fine and my transmission was 8 months old on a rebuild and had 8 months shy of 3 years left on its warranty and I can assure you did not slip or anything else for that matter! This was just one story out of many I have over the years of dealing with" dealerships"! They all suck! I recommend only using them if its convenient for you and always get a second opinion if they say something is wrong that you cant disprove yourself.
There was a 2011 rs here in tulsa I tryed to buy a few days ago for 2000 it had the same problem! If you do have to replace the engine they are expensive for such a little engine.
Go buy 5 quarts of diesel "fuel" dump the oil, let it run for 15 min to warm up then drop that and check the junk that comes out, I've done it to several motors, even my STI and it works a treat ... cheap too.
Here in New Zealand where the cheapest 2010-current Camaro is $54,000 NZD ($35,000 ish USD)
A V6 automatic Camaro owned by a woman who smoked a lot of weed and never changed the oil... that's not stereotypical or anything.
She was probably a dental hygienist as well. ;)