The butterfly can't fit through the intake ports, the bolts holding it could, if you have doubts that 'you heard it' check the valves bolts and see if their tight.
I think you heard a story about some kid that messed around with his tb and didn't tighten things up when he put them back on
Yeah that's what I was thinking too, it was some kid messing with it and fudged it up.
I have had mine on for about 25k miles with out any problems.
This story came from a preformance shop that my Brother in-law dropped into, the guy said he has seen it first hand. But I have my doughts since he had a brand new AcuFab sitting under the glass counter top. Oh! and he said BBK knew about the issue and were doing nothing.