" From: "Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> " " A: Unfortunately, there seems to be a pile of those motors that were " warrantied behind many GM dealers. well, it -is- new - a clean-sheet design. sad but not a surprise they'd have problems not found in pre-production testing. there's nothing like putting 10,000 of anything into customer hands to ferret out the bugs... ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought