smoking 360

Well, I appreciate the responses from all of you. At this point, from what I can see after reading your comments, I'm not very optimistic about getting out of this very easy, or very cheap to say the least. I spent about three hours or so today going around the intake manifold, tightening up lose manifold bolts. I noticed oil deposits close to most of them, due to leaking around the edge of the manifold. I thought it might have been leaking oil into the combustion chamber and went around and tightened all of them. I let it run for about an hour afterwords and it was blowing blue smoke out both pipes quite heavily. It seemed that the warmer it got, the more it smoked. Before my mechanic put the heads on, he showed me the inside of the cylinders and pointed out to me that there wasn't a ridge at the top of them and that they looked good. If I would have known that they needed honing I would have had him do it. He spot checked the heads by turning them upside down with some kind of fluid in them and the valves didn't leak out so no major work done on the heads other than replacing push rods because of needing different length do to new crankshaft and larger 3/4 cam shaft. The engine sounds very tight, no rattles, no knocking, just very smooth running. I'd like to run the motor more and see if there's any change. My wife and I don't have much more money to put into this and I somehow need to get this to stop smoking in order to sell it. We've only been able to spend money on it periodically due to fixed income. A relative of mine did most of the work. He's built several motors before and I thought he was up on all of this. Anyway, If there's any mopar mechanics in the Big Rapids, Morley area that could help me fix this without needing a high dollar it would be nice. Once again, thanks for the information all of you have given me.

Dale