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Buy a coyote engine and some beach chairs to throw in the Falcon, Rat-Rod can be the first step in restoring/rebuilding old cars.

I'll pitch in the couple of bucks for the beach chairs, but you have to spray paint the drinking skeleton from Social Distortion on one of the doors.

 

If the 5.3 is free you pay shipping will you use it.

 

Appreciate the thought bigs, but I won't use it anytime soon. The Falcon would take even more money to get roadworthy than a new engine in the Mazda.

 

Sounds like my dad's old 68 Firebird he drove in high school. The drivers side floor was rusty so you had to be careful when you drove it to not put your foot into the road.

I vote pick up a $1500 Miata and make it racecar in the future.

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Falcon is in a bit different condition than "rusty floorboards." This is an old pic, but it gets the point across:



Also, I don't think my fat ass can fit in a Miater.

 

At least I tried. Open offer for 6 months

 

Went for a drive today, wasn't smoking as bad or as often until it got really hot (on the way home from a trip into town). Per recommendation, did a couple of quick half-pulls (one of which 7500+), and in the driveway it smoked a bit when I revved it.

Also, when I did the cold start, I had the hood up and felt around the valve cover breather and didn't feel much of anything. No smoke.

At some point I'll probably pull the downpipe elbow and see if the turbo seals are leaking. I should also probably just completely pull the oil cap and do a more comprehensive check for airflow and smoke.

 

How many miles on the oil? Any chance its been thinned out?

 

Not many, less than a thousand probably. Unlikely it's thinned, it's the same oil I've always used and never had issues with.

 

Pcv stuck?

Watch it be some dumb noob mistake

 

No PCV, 2 crankcase vents and 2 valve cover vents. There's not enough evac with a standard ish setup to evac the crankcase properly, so I've had to resort to VTA.

 

Not sure but pretty sure this ain't normal. Hot idle, 2 small filters on PCV plate and one on the valve cover. Fluid dynamics says that all the flow is going to go to the least restrictive point (the now open oil cap) but this strikes me as an unreasonable amount of flow.

And before anyone says anything, I do plan on doing a leakdown and compression test, just haven't had much time for it.

Thoughts?

 

I don't think that's crazy. I forgot to put the oil cap on after an oil change once and on first start to check for leaks it was a mist of oil hitting the hood.


Edit, mine is a Juan valve cover so no baffle so it will be different

 

This thread needs moar good news. Never seen a build thread so disappointing. Stock turbo powet FTL

 

If that is airflow....yes that's a problem. If it's simply slangin' oil off the chain or whatever, then normal. Gen 2 VC is baffled right and that's what you have?

I can pull the oil cap off on my LS1 with no oil splash and yeah, very very small amount of blowby at idle, with the other pcv outlets blocked/no source of vacuum on the crank etc.

 

Yes its a Pu VC with the baffling. I'd expect some oil to exit the VC with as much blowby as I'm feeling come out of the oil cap area. Closed off with the filter, it probably reaches between 0.5 to 1.0 psi inside the crankcase at idle, guesstimating.

The movement of the paper towels is *entirely* from the air leaving the engine.

 

You have one or want to borrow my vacuum gauge? See what's coming out of the breather port?

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I don't think I have anything like that, so that might be helpful.

 

As others have said, the air pressure is normal. It does come out in pulses.

The speed of which your paper towel mists up with oil is concerning, especially with the Pu baffle.

I know you have the gas ports on your pistons, could it be an issue with just the rings?

 

Do you know what grit and degree cross hatch was done on the final hone?

Wiseco requires a 280 grit 45 degree cross hatch for their rings. If that isnt done...you get the typical oil consumption that wiseco pistons are known for. Which is pretty heavy consumption. Most people dont follow that direction and just send it with a ball hone and call it a day.