Z28 still at dealer and not running

May 15, 2004 9 Replies

My car is still at the dealer with nothing fixed. The ignition rotor seems to be the culprit. It has about 51,000 miles on it with an LT1 and air. Must be very hard to work on or noone wants to do it!



I am keeping a tally on a bluebooked at $5k and I am guessing the repair will cost $900 before I am through. I am not made of money!


-Val


Actually I would have done it if:

1.You were Local to Dayton Ohio. 2.You didn't mind a 3 week wait.
  1. You paid cash. I don't take checks, or credit cards.

I would have charged $275 plus parts. Charles

Charles, I wish you lived in Wisconsin. :)

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That's the wrong direction. Shop 6 is going to be in Roanokae (I can't spell it still) V.A. area. In the next few years. Ill spend half my time here, and half there.

Im sure if you look hard enough there's an old redneck rodder like me out there that does work on the cheep. Charles

my experience is that all Chevy delers are incappable to fix ignition problem on the LT-1.

They charge lots of money to thro parts at it, coil, wires, plugs, rotor, cap, optispark. And they usually screw that up.

it's a shame, and probably the reason consumers don't want GM or other domestic products.

I was able to find a local mechanic that knew how to make LT-1 engines run.

Suggest you do the same.

Will save you money and aggravation.

The only thing the stealer i mean dealer is good for is cars under warrentee. if not avoid them at all cost.

All aboard the Yankee express, next stop October.....

Then you are going to the wrong Chevy dealers.... Joe--ASE Certified Parts Specialist & 10th Ann.Club Tech Director '80 Carousel Red Turbo T/A, 26k orig. '79 "Y89" 400/4 speed 10th Ann. T/A, 57k orig '84 Olds 88 Royale Bgm 2 dr, 307 "Rocket" (lol), 141k and still going.... '80 T/A project car...

Call me crazy, BUT find a shop that repairs cabs or used to repair cabs. They used the LT1 in the caprice (Cab/police cars)from 94-96 so they know it's problems way better than the dealer does. Just my .02 BTW the distributor is a very common problem on the LT1 I ought to know I sell A LOT of them

Wild... I once lived in Dayton, OH....

Looks like Martin's batboy!

Refinish King

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