Not to Sure what kind of motor is in my car?
 

so i just bought a 1992 camaro, I just wanted something with t-tops for the summer and my dad had a 1971 camaro sweet car! but after he died the car was sold so i wanted to buy one! but the car has the RS mods on it.. but the motor doesnt look like any other motor that should be in a 1992... and the kid i bought it off of said it was a V8 but anyways someone else said it has a carburetor engine?? i dont know to much about these car.. so maybe someone can help me out!

I bought it to restore it if anything, the car drives good just needs paint and other cosmetics


any input would be great!

How about a pic of the engine?

If it's a stock RS V8, it's a 305 w/throttle body injection.

Congrats on your Camaro purchase, and welcome!

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/album....pictureid=1439

Those are the pics of the car and stufff

If you can, pull the air filter off and take another picture. Or, look to see if there are fuel injectors under it.

It looks like a small block V8 but I can only see six yellow spark plug wires. But it looks like there may be a couple black wires there too its kinda hard to tell. One thing for sure is that its not stock. My guess would be that someone took the TBI fuel injected motor out and replaced it with a carb fed small block. The intake manifold is not the stock TBI unit that came with it. I had a 1991 RS camaro and remember the 5.0 liter motor that was in it well. Below is a picture of my RS (the green one) and my buddys RS shortly after we bought them back in 1991.

thanks for every ones help so far!, ill have to check where the air filter is! then my next thing to do is the paint! ill keep everyone posted!

thanks again for all the help!

the air filter on your car is that huge metal disc on top of your engine (I call It a pie pan) that has Edelbrock logo

oh okay thanks! thats a good word for it, i actually know what it is now!!

thanks!

just make sure you dont lose the screws for it and remember how to put it back on

Yup, definitely not the stock engine. Time to start looking up casting numbers.

I wouldn't say that the engine is definately not stock. The valve covers are centerbolt.
I could easily be that someone converted the TBI engine to carb. I have seen that before. It gets rid of the electronics and makes things simpler. It also allows more control in the tuning of the engine.
From that picture, it does look possible that someone did what I said. But to be sure, you'd need to find the casting numbers.

casting numbers should be near the water pump. under the head

Actually, on mine I replaced the stock snorkel-style air cleaner with a K&N unit that looks a lot like this one. From looking at mine you'd think it was carbureted, but it is the stock TBI system under the air cleaner. That could be what was done here. But, my intake runners are not orange, they're black...makes one wonder...

Looks like an L03 5.0 TBI with an aftermarket intake to me.