Slow, Mike and Calvin, I bought this engine already built and am asking these questions because I have never built an engine of this caliber. I have been building my own engine for 25 years but this whole new combo I felt was out of my league and wanted a professinal to do it. So I did have a professional build it and here I am trying to figure it out $22,000.00 later. I will soon pull the engine and go through it myself. I know Curtis Boggs from RFD and may have him look the heads over. (My sheet metal shop used to be next to his shop in Lorton,Va.) When I first fired this engine up it smoked continuously and blew oil all over the place. The oil pan, valve covers, timing cover all blew oil out. The valley pan would literally fill up with in 10 miles of driving. I removed and sealed the leaks the best I could and bought a vacuum pump which fixed that problem but the smoking problem still existed although it was starting to smoke less the more I drove it. The last time I took it out it lost oil pressure about a 1/2 mi from the shop and now has a knock. Yes, it has plenty of oil, the vacuum pump did not suck it all out, I do know to monitor that. This motor is supposed to have 11to1 comp. but I did not measure it but will. I was wondering if the compression was really low to produce weak cranking comp., 130 lbs., and weak HP numbers. That's why I increased the cam timing, to get more cylinder pressure! My original question is how much dynamic compression you guys have that run on the hairy edge with pump gas. That's where this car needs to be, on the hairy edge. This is a very occasional street car that I want to run good at the track. I have my own dynojet chassis dyno so getting dyno #'s arn't a problem. I also tune other peoples cars and have not had negative feedback most are happy with the results gained. Its a really fun passtime/side job and generate a little cash for the habit. Almost all are stund that their 700 hp small block made 340 rwhp. Mike, I am certainly not too proud to ask as here I am askin and just trying to learn and hopefully will teach someone else down the road.
Steve
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