nm9stheham
Well-Known Member
Those numbers look solid and are where they should be. I was thinking of this on a long drive and the more I thought, the more I think you may just have normal breather oil at WOT where the PCV is not really pulling due to low vacuum. If you had a LOT of blowby out of the breather, then you would see oil smoke behind the car when you got on it hard for 5 seconds or more.
Personally, I would still run non-synthetic for a while. I alwasy use non-synthetics for 200-300 miles for rally engines and 800-1000 ofr street engines.
There is some misreading going on here: the concern was not the hone job, but that the OP went right to synthetic oils after cam break-in, and does not appear to have loaded the rings at all before that switch. Hence the suggestion to switch back for a while to non-synthetic.
Personally, I would still run non-synthetic for a while. I alwasy use non-synthetics for 200-300 miles for rally engines and 800-1000 ofr street engines.
While I have the same general experience, and all my rally engines seat in like right away, I have had 2 lower compression engines that honestly took a while to seat in; they would get better and smoother and perkier over 300-400 miles. Same assembly techniques...which BTW includes slobbering oil all over all of the rings.... nary a problem with that, but it probably just pretty much all runs off anyway into the pan while the engine is upright for a few days. (So, yes, the same results can be achieved with different ring oiling approaches.)
There is some misreading going on here: the concern was not the hone job, but that the OP went right to synthetic oils after cam break-in, and does not appear to have loaded the rings at all before that switch. Hence the suggestion to switch back for a while to non-synthetic.
