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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    yes they are new pistons as far as the rings go I followed the instructions in the box for the rings. But I could have put some in the wrong way somehow. And the tarp and heater idea is a good one I’ll remember that for next time something breaks and it’s -20 outside.
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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    I will probably check into that tomorrow. It’s dark now and getting kinda chilly out. I think I might just have to put it together, and try and hold out till spring. Or till I win the lottery, and can build a huge heated shop, so I don’t have to work on a cold open sloped driveway. Lol
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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    There are no oil leaks to the outside of the engine. The more I dig in the more I’m thinking it’s a combination of rings and valve seals.
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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    The rings were all gapped by myself to .017-019 in accordance with the manufacturer’s specs. Not saying I didn’t manage to miss something, or put one in upside down or something. and when the engine was broke in I was using a qjet carb, with stock cast manifold. I switched to the EPS at around...
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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    Oh also I never did notice any smoke at any time. Which seems strange considering how much oil is being burnt up. And I’ve been keeping a close eye on it recently. Also the cylinders with the highest compression, are the ones with the worst looking plugs
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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    Ok so the short block is a 010 70s gm block, and the rotating assembly is an eagle specialty products stroker kit. that came with pistons, piston rings, 5.7 rods, crankshaft, balancer, and flexplate. These are the compression numbers dry and cold. But something must be wrong for split numbers...
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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    I will get a compression test done as soon as possible here. and I’ll try and upload pictures of the plugs too.
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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    Yes I am running a PCV system on stock gm baffled valve covers. And the plugs that are getting fouled are 5-7 on drivers side and 2-4 on passenger side. The other 4 plugs have a darker color to them, but definitely are not fouled.
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    Burning excessive oil!! Need advice.

    So let’s start with the engine specs. It’s a 383 stroker bored 040 with roughly 10,000 miles on it. The cam is a lunati with .443/.465 lift. it has an edelbrock EPS manifold, edelbrock 1406 carb, on top of it. It has dart iron eagle heads, with 72cc combustion chambers. It has headers with true...
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    A/C Compressor Mounting

    I’m gonna bump this because I also could use some pictures of a working A/C system and all the brackets that go into it.
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    Need help with Qjet identification

    I was digging through an old Chevy van the other day with a buddy. And we found an old qjet carb in a box and it’s in pretty nice condition but it’s missing the little round number plate. So I’m not able to tell what make or model it’s from. so I thought I’d throw some pictures up on here and...
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    Aluminum or Trimetal Rod and Crank Bearings - 4-Bolt Main 350 Small Block

    I would also like to know the answer to this as I have a rebuild coming in the near future also.
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    New guy with first square body

    Welcome from ND
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    New to Forum-1985 Chevy K20

    Welcome from ND
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    350 Chevy knocking noise!

    I was not in the water I was stuck in the 2 feet of snow on top of the ice. But yeah I would have a whole bunch more issues if water would have been involved
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