fstarr56

Got rid of my 06 vert and got the 12 grand sport. This thing is a beast!!


So I just got a 12 grand sport... love it!!! Anyone know what this random bolt is sticking out? It’s on the right side just in front of the head cover.

SK '08

It would be more helpful to see it better if you used flash.

hmmmm16417

take it out and see what happens......


hahaha

gsflyer2011

Cant see a thing

4SUMERZ

Here is a pic of that bolt in a brightened mode.


Interesting.

Turbo6TA

When you say it's on the right side ... your talking about the passenger side ... correct ?

Oh Boy

I can't see a thing. How about someone circle it.

hmmmm16417

Oh Boy

This is the area in question. This is my car and I own it since new, there is no bolt in my car.

SPSandman

Welcome, and I think it would help everyone with some pictures from the outside of the car

I have a 2012 as well, I will have to look at mine when I go out. That doesn't seem like it should be like that. Looks like Oh Boys just has the threads on his and nothing in it. Will see if mine has a bolt in there. Maybe someone found one a missing bolt, and then saw that and figured it had to go there?

Jughead

Thats the turbo cooler interchange cycle bolt. Tighten it down.

captain vette

it does not look to be the same place at all.

FAUEE

Stick shift car? My guess is someone added it to have somewhere easier to use the ground part of a battrry tender.

Oh Boy

It is the exact same place, I just went closer with the picture. Right over the AC compressor.

SPSandman

I think that is where you attach the flux capacitor actually. It is option Code FC1. Just look in the glove box to see if it was included with the car. Maybe they took it off and left the security bolt in place.

Turbo6TA

Yup .... That hole with the bolt is in the right side of the water pump. The belt tensioner is right above it and the housing for the water pump thermostat is just to the lower right of the bolt.

BTW ... That engine photo that "Oh Boy" posted looks to have been in a salt water air environment (corrosion).

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Icecap

Could it be an attaching point for an engine lifting device? Could the engine have been removed at some time in the past and they stored the bolt used in the bolthole?

Oh Boy

And that correlates to this conversation how? But anyway here is another part of "corrosion". The top side came right off with just a wipe of my index finger, the bottom side I left for comparison purposes in the picture. I would assume with a little stiff brush it would look perfect as would any other part in the motor. Corrosion? More probably light oxidation if anything.

extrapilot

The threaded hole is in the water pump and it's probably used in another application like the Camaro that use the same water pump. My LS2 water pump doesn't have this mounting hole.

Barspin

That is the key bolt. If you take it out your engine will blow-up.