That's good to hear. I'm glad that a total engine rebuild including gaskets and seals seemed to cure all but some of your base compression problems. I think people reading this post should now realize that if their engine is blowing tons of oil out the cure isn't to install a vacuum pump....it's to cure what's really their problem...leaky gaskets and seals.
HG blew because I decided to run the car on a very hot day on very high boost. Even so I ran a 7.3@ low 80s mph letting off well before the finish line.
I was not driving around with a blown HG. If you keep insisting something was
terribly wrong with my engine I'm going to have to conclude that you are just dense. It didn't smoke before the hg issue and it hauled ass. It did what I asked of it, mission accomplished.
A strong turbo buick combo generates cylinder pressures nearly double that of what cutting edge nascar and formula one engines produce. Calculate the BMEPs of these engines and see for yourself. To believe we should be able to contain that kind of pressure is not only wishful thinking, it's fantasy. You'd have to have a lot more faith in our primitive ring sealing technology and weak cylinder bores than is realistic.
I stated from the start that my engine was certainly more loose than a fresh build but that doesn't change the fact that cylinder pressure leaks by the rings on all engines, and certainly it is more of a problem on turbo regals.
I also stated above that the new combo still shoots some oil out of the dipstick but overall leakage is greatly reduced which can of course be attributed to the fresh build. Another factor is that with the larger cam, it is quite possible and even likely that I am generating lower peak cylinder pressures.
Though I know that some of the concepts behind what I have presented in this thread are over your head, you can sleep well at night knowing that crank-case pressure issues have sometimes been a challenge to teams of engineers. Case in point, the early LS1 program had to have significant changes made to the block to deal with pressure issues that were unforeseen until testing began. There have even been subsequent revisions to production blocks to deal with these issues.
If GM was having problems with the LS program at stock hp levels and you are not with a 30+ year old smog casting with more than double the cyl pressure of it's original design parameters... well then that's some pretty amazing stuff there, maybe they should hire you.
