Yip, I know I was sucking oil through the PCV, but I took the intake and blower off and cleaned out the oil, then reinstalled. I left the PCV out and ran it for about an hour and got the same problem.

Did stagger the rings (I explicitly made sure). Plus, each was file fit specifically to each cylinder and installed in the correct groove and the correct side facing up. I would think if it were the rings, the compression and leak down would have been muuuuuuch worse to loose this much oil.

The strange thing is that it is both sides causing the problem. If it were one or two cylinders bad, I would say okay, broken ring or a crack...but ALL cylinders? And again, the compression and leakdown results don't indicate a problem on any particular cylinder.

There's no doubt it's oil burning. I've lost 4 quarts in 200 miles. No water is lost and the water is clean as can be. So is the oil (when it's not burned off). Maybe the smoke is blue, but it's so obvious that it's oil burning. No idea what Streets is talking about with the oil line to the johnson bearings. Maybe that's one of those copper magnet kind of things. What's an oil line got to do with oil in the cylinders? The blower is not oiled...it's self contained (if that's what you meant by oil line)...and it's not leaking oil...I checked. And nope, not an 83 vette.

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