My customer and I just took his Trans Am back to Portland engine rebuilders last month. They have built his motor well over a year ago and we just got fired up a couple months ago. Everything went fine with the break in and a small drive. and then he called me a few days later and said I had started it and he thought he heard some kind of a knock? True enough I can hear it as well and told him to turn it off quickly. Let's call Ted at Portland engine rebuilders and see what he says. We trailer the car out there and sure enough it was just a rocker hitting the custom valve covers my customer wanted. the first thing we did was take it straight back to the Builder who is more than happy to give a look. I know for a fact that if we would had any problem seriously down low we may have been in for taking the motor back out but I'm sure Ted would have fixed it and made it right no problem. The years time till we started it didn't faze the Builder one bit. And the fact that we brought it right to him when we thought we had a problem... He was very thankful of that. And we were very thankful for him asking us to quickly bring it out so he could help us. And he did. We took the valve covers off and banged in the baffle a little bit and problem solved. I know it was a simple problem but before we got crazy doing our own diagnosis I don't want to the person responsible for building a motor to have the first crack at it.
