[gtofreek]

Engines are loud at full throttle on the dyno, not at idle. They are relatively quiet at idle so a knock would have been noticeable. I told you this Joe. I stand right next to the engine while setting the timing. There timing marks were solid as a rock, not jumping around like they would be after the bushing wore out.

Seems to me that if it made noise at first startup then the shop that got it running would have said something. But they didn't. Makes more sense to me that it didn't make noise, then during their first test drive, it started making noise and they were afraid they hurt the engine, so they didn't say anything. It was me and someone else on here that pointed the noise out to you. You even told me that when you went to pick up the car, they commented on how fast it was so you better take it easy at first. That means they got on it. Not saying they hurt it, they didn't. Just saying they probably thought they did, so they didn't say anything to you about the noise.