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Piston slap is from having no piston skirts and when carbon builds up on pistons is when it make that noise from rocking in cylinder is what I was told by my GM world class tech. The fix is to put the acid cleaner in cylinders to clean carbon then slap goes away. I was like why do I have to do that all the time on a newer engine, to me its retarded