|
04-19-2024, 09:40 PM | #16 |
VIP Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Murfreesboro TN
Posts: 4,969
Likes: 1,136
Liked 1,218 Times in 313 Posts
|
Re: 402 stocker engine
Again, if it isn't smoking out the headers, oil isn't getting past the oil ring, or second ring. If it is smoking and "huffing" out the valve covers/breathers, that's cylinder pressure in the pan, and it may not show up on a compression test or a leak down. But it WILL show up on the dyno, or in the car, with a Dwyer gauge on the breather. If you don't have access to a dyno (an 8 hour drive to get on a dyno is a "no brainer", these days there is no substitute for a dyno for a race engine) you can test it in an automatic car, with two people.
If you have any sort of gapless ring, a leak down test can lie to you.
__________________
Alan Roehrich 212A G/S |
|
|