First and only pass on my new 408 today!

Rodzilla said

GJ, I forgot to ask what kind of oil pressure you end up with, cold and hot, reved up and at idle? Will you be checking your lifter bores occasionally to see if you have any galling after the oil has be blocked off? If so please up date with what you see. Thanks.

Again nice job on the run, sorry about the converter situation.

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Right now I have 70 cold at idle with 5w20 in it and right around 25 hot at idle.

I put 5w30 in it before I went out and it's a little more. The car was getting a little squirelly on the top end (probably due to the humongous amounts of ATF coming out of the converter) so I wasn't paying much attention to RPM or oil pressure.

As for checking the lifters, I doubt I will unless the intake has to come off for some reason, which it might as I may still have some valve seal problems. I'm not sure yet because I need to get some passes on the engine to make sure the rings are seated first and then I'll go from there. It still smokes some from the right side but I'm not sure if it's just residual in the header from the torn seal I had before or if I may have torn another one. There was quite a bit of oil in that header.