My brand new less than 2000 mile blower moter recently developed a horrible knock, I was so frustrated at that point that I almost parted the car out. Got it up on the lift yesterday and the bolts that hold the flexplate to the crank had backed out, tightened them back up with a little lok-tite and back in business . On another positive side note, I had allready budgeted around 3000.00 for shortblock repairs expecting the worst case, so now I can spend that elsewhere on the car . No real tech value here, but I was so happy about it that I had to post

 

i had a dented shield hit those same bolts on a brand new motor when i fired it up...man i was pissed, i thought it was knocking...i feel ya, glad to hear the good news!

 

whew! Good find and your lucky!

I take it you are breaking it in N/A and dont have the turbo setup on yet? How do you like the FAST setup?

 

Yep, breaking it in NA, it's got around 2k on it now so it's almost time to put the boost to it. All I gotta do is swap injectors, re-flash the PCM, and slip on the blower belt, everything else is allready in place (it's sucking air through the intercooler and blower right now). No FAST ECM on this car though, at least not yet. I just have the LT1 Edit software for the stock PCM.