Rebuilt 360, excessive oil consumption

1wild&crazyguy said

hmmm. so your machinist fk'd up when assembling it by not mocking it up and correcting any issues, not to say the intake is perfect either....but that should have been caught.

If you stick an intake on the block w/heads 'no gasket'...with a good light behind it, you would see the off angle/gaps.

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He assured me that he personally assembled the rotating assy and the heads. He said he had a "new" guy put on the intake, oil pan, and valve covers. he gave me the 340 intake, so I guess that is something. if I had it to do all over again, I would build the engine myself. I only built one engine before, a chevy 350, and I made a couple of mistakes that cost me extra time and money. one, I got the timing chain off a tooth, but the big mistake I made was I did not cover all of the openings while it was stored. A 1/4 x20x1/2 bolt found it's way into the #7 cylinder. busted the head and ruined the piston. luckily, it did not score the cylinder wall. after a lot of frustration, I finally got it running. I felt that if an experienced builder would build my 360, I would avoid a lot of trouble and frustration. The next engine I build will be done by me!