Fireball

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As some already know, I had bad oil control issues on my last motor...it was using alot of oil and was causing a terrible oil haze at idle. I had pulled the intake a few times just to see a teaspoon of oil minimum on each intake valve
I knew it wasn't the intake as it was real clean and I have the LS6 PCV mods.

So I determined it to be the rings/valve seals interacting funny.

So I pulled the motor and tore it down. Nothing out of the ordinary other than I found 5 bent intake valves due to my mistake in flycutting the pistons

So I opened up a fresh Glad trash bag and proceeded to hurl all the total seal rings in the trash (where they truly belong )

I rehoned the cyliners (with a glaze breaker tool) and put in some diamond pro-select rings gapped at .018 and .022 (first/second ring). Joe Prince put in some new intake valves which picked up 4 cfm on my heads (thanks JPR) and I put in some fresh pistons from valvegod

Got the motor back together and in the car last weekend. 150 or so miles have gone by and all the oil is still all in oil pan (where it belongs ) No more smoking or nothing

As far as performance...hard to say but my SOTP meter says its faster (having 8 sealing intake valves should make the difference LOL )

After I replace one of my O2 sensors (getting 25% Ltrim on that side and 5% on the other side...must be oil contaminated), I'll get it dyno tuned and back to the track

So...DON'T RUN TOTAL SEAL GAPLESS RINGS!!!

Country Boy

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Thats good to hear!! Why did you use .018 and .022 ring gaps? Chris @ Diamond told me to use .016 and .018. Are you spraying?

Fireball

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the top ones measured out to .018 on mine so I opened up the bottoms to accomodate

Jason99T/A

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Cool Brian! Glad to hear you got that problem taken care of. Get it on the dyno and see how it does.

I had my 346ci motor gapped at .016" top and .020" second. Since I'm about to put the TNT kit on the car and the motor is sitting on the engine stand, I'm putting new rings in gapped at .022"/.026".

Jason

Fireball

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Your car is going to be absolutely SICK!!!

Jason99T/A

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heheeh, thanks. I was planning on spraying it last time, but I took the motor out for a new cam and heads before I was able to install the kit. Craig told me the heads should be done at the end of the week. I am shipping my pistons off to Polydyne to be coated today. They should be back the following week as well. Then, it's time to assemble... again.

Jason