# GM Powertrain open house today...

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**Created:** [August 23, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464 "2013-08-23T11:27:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![drvnkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/drvnkd/32/109615_2.png) [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464/1 "2013-08-23T11:27:59Z")

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FYI:

> **[GM Powertrain Tonawanda Engine](https://www.facebook.com/75thanniversary)**
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> GM Powertrain Tonawanda Engine, Buffalo, NY. 2K likes. Celebrating 75 years of engine building in WNY

Found a vid from 2011.

And also an L-850 vid

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**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464/2 "2013-08-23T11:54:18Z")

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Shocked I didn’t see my Father in Law in that video from 2011.

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**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464/3 "2013-08-23T12:39:40Z")

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Isn’t this the factory that everyone called “Mexico” since we were paying employees $15-20 per hour versus the original $40-60+ they were making per hour before GM went bankrupt?

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/baker/32/5423_2.png) [@Baker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464/4 "2013-08-23T12:42:28Z")

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Pretty cool :tup:

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**Author:** ![Hass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@Hass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hass)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464/5 "2013-08-23T13:05:44Z")

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My grandfather used to work there, he told me they test ran all the engines on Propane. Perhaps they stopped doing that?

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**Author:** ![quadturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7bcc69/32.png) [@quadturbo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/quadturbo)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464/6 "2013-08-23T14:17:30Z")

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I think they just run air through them now

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**Author:** ![drvnkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/drvnkd/32/109615_2.png) [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464/7 "2013-08-26T07:06:40Z")

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No propane testing…  
There is a helium leak test on the fuel rails.

The tours were through plant 1 and 5.  
The C7 looks better in person.

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**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-powertrain-open-house-today/232464/8 "2013-08-26T07:37:37Z")

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I would have liked to go to this. I heard that the whole plant is fairly well updated now.