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	03-19-2016 04:30 AM #10
 Again I very much appreciate everyone taking the time to try and help me with this issue. I guess the thing that doesn't make sense to me is that this car did not smoke in any way when it was first fired up and during the first 30-45 minutes of break in time. The brief trips around the country didn't yield much if any smoke at all either. Yesterday I started the car and let it do a high idle for a little while and at first no smoke. Suddenly the smoking started up and continued the rest of the time I let it run. Oil pressure was around 40psi at 1000 rpms after the warm up, temp steady at 185. The smoke is the best I can tell a very light blue in color although it was very cloudy and fixing to rain the whole time I was running it. The carb I'm using in an Edelbrock Performer 650cfm and is new. Not much to adjust on it but I did set the mixture screws at about 2 1/2 full turns for a good starting point. The people who did the bore job, installed the cam bearings and serviced the heads build racing engines and have been in business for over 30 years. They also ordered the pistons, rings and crank bearings. My brother has been repairing and building engines since he was 14 and is now 57. He really knows his potatoes about engines so I feel confident everything was installed properly. I'm not sure if a compression test this early on will be an accurate indication of anything but I can see what I'm getting at this point. Maybe I should stop bothering you good folks and just give the motor more time to seat the rings.
 





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I'm happy to see it back up, sure hope it lasts.
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