Stopped knocking. Don't know why, but it just stopped. Nothing added nothing changed. On cold starts every now and again it knocks, but since it's getting warmer I haven't heard it.
Engine is still in limp mode. Cannot safely go above 5K RPM. When it does it blows thick white smoke from the rear.

We also found that the title he has is not the original title. It's a copy of the brand new title. Because somehow the dealership "Lost the title" and coincidentally there just happens to be frame puller evidence and most of the front end is from a different car, and there's two vin numbers, the engine is not the correct one, the list goes on. Shady AF dealership.

What did happen is that the transmission just kinda
exploded
Thing wouldn't leave fourth gear and was bogging really, really bad. The last thing it did was full throttle reversing into a parking spot. There was a trail across Lincoln NE of trans fluid.
We looked at the transmission, but i really seems like you weren't ever supposed to fix it. Completely sealed no trans fluid stick, no way to see it.