I honestly think most of it was caused by the wheel. I never primed one like this and was shocked to see the wasted oil shooting out as my son ran the drill priming the engine as I slowly turned it over with a breaker bar. I wish I had video of it to post. My old 408 that ran for years and was in need of its fourth rebuild when it spun a bearing and broke a rod was tubed and had zero issues and I had a 650 roller cam in it. I ran 9.70’s with that block and will be putting in on a scrap pile. It was .030 over and served me well.
