There was a recall on some of the GM cars with the intake. Ive seem a few acutally come into the shop where the plastic aaround the egr tube got ate up by the coolant and filled the intake up with coolant. $1100 is a lot of damn money though. 3.8s are fucking easy to work on and you can do it all in less than a day. A/Z sells aftermarket intakes as well, they arent that much compared to GM parts