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Originally Posted by federal
Thank you both for actual insightful replies. While all good points, I’m really hoping big GM and an appraiser from them will be able to see there’s literally no other damage to the engine or components, besides the aforementioned items- which I’m hoping is enough to have enough cause for a warranty claim. Replacing the whole engine is just what the dealership wants, as I was going to trade it in for a ZL1, but in reality I can probably get away with just a crankshaft and those two bearings being replaced for around $4000.
The only reason dealer 1 was freaking out and saying I would need a whole new engine is because they saw “water” in one of the photos of the oil pan from my mechanic, when in reality, it was just coolant from when they pulled the head off. They just took it at face value and assumed more was wrong than what is
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I understand where you are coming from. But the hard fact is that the modifications cause the engine to operate outside of the factory engineered specifications and tolerances.
The only thing you can really do is to forget about trying to GM to cover this, they won't. Just move on with replacing the rotating assembly, and I would suggest forged crank and rods designed to handle the boost.