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Well it's no secret anymore, and I've done pistons in 2011 and 2012 models with the 2.4 so it's not limited to one year. They replaced engines until they realized they could get away with new pistons and rings. Loose balance shaft chains, and camshaft actuators were also issues on the earlier ones. The V6 has less issues but is a bitch to work on, I have a 3.6 with 120k on it tore down right now as a matter of fact, sludge build-up (easy to get with GM's oil life monitor) and spun 4 rod bearings before it locked up. All I see being a dealership tech is broken ones so take my opinion with a grain of salt. Most of the issues have been resolved, and buying a new one with a warranty to fall back on wouldn't be bad.

I'm an automotive technician now. I have 8-9 years experience. I grew up racing and working on cars, my Dad and Grandfather were both technicians. I have a good mechanical aptitude which makes this job a good fit for me and in the grand scheme of things I can't think of anything else I'd want to do on a daily basis. In the last 4-5 years I decided to take this from a job to a career, I invested in more tools and will continue to do that, I passed 11 ASE tests, took Mazda's classes to be Mazda Certified, and continue to take GM classes to stay certified in their cars. I started out changing oil and working my way up, though I think it's easier for many people to go to school. It will never make me rich but it's an honest days work. I started out in high taking Electrical Tech in vocational school, and went through a 4 year aprenticeship program to be an electrician. I worked construction, mainly commercial buildings. I hated the job. You don't realize how much it sucks to work without electricity, I put up parking lot lights in the dead of winter and the heat of summer. I dug trenches to bury cable, I bent and installed many feet of conduit in all sizes up to 4", hung countless light fixtures, installed huge sections of switchgear to power large buildings. I had frostbite, severe sunburn, and been electricuted doing that job. I don't miss it in the least.

Can't believe they are going to wait to let Stig lap the P1, I was disapointed.

I'm sure he did, that's a pretty active site, although a lot of it is not of interest to me. I like CR, and LS1tech, but I get bored reading a bunch of people asking what seem like simple automotive questions since I work on cars all day, so even LS1tech gets old pretty quick. Since I'm not really into anything other then cars I don't frequent many sites. I sure as hell could care less what racer is doing what, unless that racer is me.

Can you clean out a toilet? Seriously though, its not that hard to take apart, clean up, make sure nothing is excessively worn, and reassemble. If they ran fine when you took them off it's not like there is anything that is going to be worn out.

I'll be at the hangout, going to dinner.

Haven't heard about this, where will this be located? Who owns it? It's a little surprising to me considering Byers had to close their Dublin Chevy store.

I wanna drive it. Dyno Brian put it together AND tuned it, talk about touched by the hand of GOD!!

Sounds like fun to me.

I've got all this shit, gonna try it with a T56, what do you wanna do?

Well I took April 18th off, hopefully I'll have the Camaro ready, if not I'll just take the Miata for the hell of it. These are the only drag days I make it a point to make it to anyway.

For those that could use a reminder, download the torrent from Finalgear.com however it will air on BBC America Monday February 10th. Downloaded and watched episode 1 last night, funny and fun as usual.

I miss the days of Ned Jarrett and Benny Parsons, Rusty Wallace wasn't a great driver and he's a horrible announcer, and yes most of the announcing is geared towards people who have no clue on what is going on. I just got sick of all the goddamn Nascar shows there are, it seems like all Speed channel ever showed was Nascar shows and some other corney shit so I don't miss that channel at all. Can't say I watch much anymore, but I'm sure until the weather breaks I'll watch a lot of it, especially Daytona.

Where's my vid?

And be greatful to be in this modern technological age when you can post videos of yourself taking a shit for the poor bastards all around the world to see. In an age when only someone like Paul can exist, he posts some retarded hippie drivle. :dumb:

interesting.

Well there's something I've never done, ever. Can you go down the hill on a sled? Sorry it just sounds like more fun then skis.