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Old Mar 30, 2003 | 12:57 AM
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Car: 95 Z28
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2.8 v6

last night i froze my entire engine, it will not move at all. Do I need to rebuild it? And how much better would it be? Will it be faster? I was planning on that, shift kit, cold air intake, and dual glass pack exhaust. Does that setup sound good? I would love flowmaster or somethin, but glasspacks sound sweet and are 15 bucks!

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Old Mar 31, 2003 | 08:56 PM
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you will lose all of your low end torque if you go with the glass packs on a 2.8. v6's thrive on back pressure.

yes, you need a rebuild
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Old Mar 31, 2003 | 09:26 PM
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How does it affect it with glasspacks?

I also have the RARE (crappy rare, not good rare) 4cyl camaro... I use glasspacks on it too, is that bad?
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Old Apr 1, 2003 | 07:44 AM
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RARE? the made how many hundreds of thousands of those cars?
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Old Apr 1, 2003 | 11:03 AM
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A 2.8 rebuild without some type of power adder (turbo/supercharger or nitrous) is a waste if you want it to be noticably faster. This has been beat to death but don't rebuild the 2.8 just swap in a V-8 if you want to go fast. Otherwise go with a 3.1 or 3.4 V-6.

Ya the 4-cyl Camaro isn't rare just undesirable . No they are good cars, just not fast.

Later, Garrett
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