[ltrout]

Currently, I own a 2010 ABM Camaro V6. I love the car, especially the color, but have started having some problems with it. We bought the car for pretty cheap after talking to the owner and him assuring us it would only be a ~1.5k fix. Long story short, we ended up having to replace the engine with a used ~60k mile engine. We had just moved to this new town, so if we would have known before hand we wouldn't have been burned like we did. But after the new (used) engine was put in, the car was fine, kind of. Ever since owning it (a little over 14 months now) the car has given off a bad smell whenever you get on it, even just lightly getting on it to get around someone on a one lane road. It smells like something is burning. The engine light would come on and go off every couple weeks, and it kept coming back to the catalytic converter(s). Apparently GM extended the warranty on them to 80k, so me being at 78k was able to get the right one warrantied. Hasn't helped the smell, so I'm not entirely sure what that is due to. Living in Texas we have to deal with some very hot summer days. My car generally runs at 190-205 temperature on my trip to work and back, or just cruising around. I read that the fans come out at 220, or are supposed to. I have never heard my fans come on. A couple days back my digital thermometer for the coolant read 220-230 (would fluctuate) just sitting in the drive thru for about 2 minutes. It wasn't hot outside as it was at 10PM and the temperature was about 75. But the fans never kicked on. The physical coolant temperature gauge was between the halfway mark and the 1/4 mark on the left side, so I'm not sure if one of them are off or what. But what is weird, my fans have never kicked on. Sitting in traffic with the digital temperature reading 210-215, nothing. I'm coming up on 80k within the month and just had to replace the MAF sensor. Since the engine has been replaced we have had to fix the timing chains, right cat, MAF sensor, about to replace the serpentine belt this payday, and there's something else I feel I'm forgetting but it's been a long day so its stuck on the tip of my mind currently. I'm starting to read up on the issues people were having with their LLT engines and it's starting to get to me of if I should just keep this one for as long as I can and replace whatever needs replacing when the time comes? Or should I go ahead and try to get out of it into a newer (2012-2015) one? If I do the latter, it would be at the end of the year or early next year before I would be able to. I'm graduating HS next year, so I will be attending college and working so I am looking at just picking up the newest 14/15 V6 since they are high 10s to low 20s but some still have a couple years in their warranty left, or getting a 2012/13 V8, if I was to upgrade. I had the option to upgrade to a 15 2LT RS a few weeks prior, but didn't go through with it as I like my car a little too much to upgrade. The color is perfect and Chevy doesn't offer it anymore, and there's not too made or left currently so I feel like I would regret getting rid of it. I posted a couple weeks back about whether I should upgrade or not and the majority of you told me to get an SS, not surprising haha. So, what would be my best bet: Keeping it for as long as I can and just try to get into a new one in a couple years, if it was to last that long, or just try and get out of it at the end of the year? Also, what issues would I be looking forward to from this engine? I'm currently at 150 miles shy of 80k, but have seen some selling with 95-105k miles.