*sigh another broken valve spring
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From: You know your drunk when you swerve to miss the tree then you realize its your air freshener! Covington Ga
Ever find out what springs are on the car? Like ColeTrain'sC5 said the springs should be yellow if it is stock.
Le Mans Master
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From: La La land cali
St. Jude Donor '09
That is not what a 2002 stock valve spring looks like. The LS6 valve spring in a 2002 was yellow.
If Photobucket wasn't dead in the water right now, I'd post up. Didn't matter anyway, so I guess there's no point.
The 2004 LS6 spring was a brown-copperish kind of color.
I'm not sure why yours is black like that. Either it's covered with oil, or it's from an LS1.
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That is not what a 2002 stock valve spring looks like. The LS6 valve spring in a 2002 was yellow.
If Photobucket wasn't dead in the water right now, I'd post up. Didn't matter anyway, so I guess there's no point.
The 2004 LS6 spring was a brown-copperish kind of color.
I'm not sure why yours is black like that. Either it's covered with oil, or it's from an LS1.
If Photobucket wasn't dead in the water right now, I'd post up. Didn't matter anyway, so I guess there's no point.
The 2004 LS6 spring was a brown-copperish kind of color.
I'm not sure why yours is black like that. Either it's covered with oil, or it's from an LS1.
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From: Wildomar CA
My vote is this was a H/C car that was put back to stock, and the heads were replaced with much cheaper LS1 castings and thrown back together for sale. I WOULD NOT run the car like that. You'll just run into the exact same problem again and again and again. 
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From: Andreas Pennsylvania
Burning Brakes
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From: Andreas Pennsylvania
You'll be fine with those then. They were very good to me when I had the stock heads on. They saw 7k rpm (aftermarket cam motor) and they never had an issue. Good to hear that. I am guessing you will be good to go for another 100k miles. 
