Warranted will still cover with or without the intake.

 

Everything is always on national backorder..

 

The warranty should cover issues with the turbocharger if you have an intake and it turns out to be bad bearing, but to be smart I wouldn't risk it as the dealer and GM could use it as ground to dismiss your claim and then the legal burden is on you to prove it couldn't have caused the failure. With how simple it is to go back to stock and considering that unless the failure is due to ingesting debris or something directly related to the intake, I wouldn't feel wrong taking it in since it is a covered component under both the bumper-to-bumper as well as the powertrain warranty. Now if you had heavily modified the car and were over-spinning the stock turbo on an aftermarket tune or had a different failure that could be related to your aftermarket upgrades, then putting the car back to stock and asking GM to pay for your modifications would be simple warranty fraud that costs everyone over the long-term.

 

If your boosting less than 23psi .... I wouldn't feel bad taking it in for a turbo lol. GM st1 can run that high of boost IIRC .

 

Sweet. I put the stock air box, went to the dealer. They said no prob and had the turbo rebuilt.
Very happy with the results.