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I see I see. Well, I drive the car very aggressively 75% of the time, and even when I don't there is still a small puff of smoke that escapes in between shifts. On my dyno runs, if you've seen the video, you see my car let loose a lot of smoke after doing a 6krpm pull, and on one run they had me keep the car in gear! And when I did that, it just smoked and smoked and smoked. So whenever I'm on the highway going 70+(which is almost every day that I drive it) I'm sure I burn quite a bit, and then not to mention when going to portland, which has happened a LOT over the past three months, way more than I can afford, I go up to 85, which is somewhere around 4500rpm for an hour. I don't expect the engine to keep all of it's oil when I drive it like that. But still. And I'm not sure on how many miles per quart of oil, that was just a guestimate, which may be pretty accurate.
Original rings though definitely sounds like something that could be one of the problems. How could you determine if they are bad? Will a leakdown test show this?
Hmm, maybe I should toss my 74 engine together with this better F head I have lying around. It had been rebuilt in the four years before I owned it. And the one piston only has a little bit of damage from the little screw. No, I don't want to F with that... Argh. Where's the time/money damnit.
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Kyle - '68 142? - Oregon Volvo Tuners?
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