CRAP! I'm smoking!

Hey thanks for jumping in, guys. Thought after a week this post died. Glad it didn't.....

So had to buy a brand new intake. Old one just didn't fit. After comparing it with the new one, it measues out like it was milled about 100 thou PER SIDE! Yeah. I know. My heads were milled .020 cylinder surface only. Cut waaay too much.

So brought the new one home from my machinist today. He cut it 40 thou and it looks like it's gonna be perfect with a .060 gasket. Angles are dead on. You would not believe how small those ports are on a brand new Super Victor. I have to port it tomorrow. Looks like it's gonna take me awhile, too. Ports aren't even close. I've never done it before but bought 2 new carbide "burrs" today and have a bunch of "tootsie roll" drums. Thankfully I have the old one for a porting guide. The ports were done really nice.

Also, installed new Viton seals. Just in case.

I sure hope this all cures the issue. One of the machine shop guys introduced me to the term "reversion" and I almost puked. I just can't believe my oil rings could have gone bad.
This thing had 12 dyno pulls and all was perfect. Put it in the car and....smoke.

It make me sick to even think after all the money....the clearancing, degreeing, ring filing, careful everything...that these Total Seal rings could have went south on me. Before I tore the intake off this last time I ran a compression check and had 194 psi average with less than 3 psi deviation AND a leakdown less than 3 percent.

Hope that ole fart who said "reversion" was wrong!