Re: IML: '58 Road Trip

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

I suspect that your car got around 14 miles per gallon if you were to convert your calculation from liters to gallons. That would still seem lean to me during the break in of a new engine, as this requires speed variation which is not consistent with good gas mileage.

One quart of oil in 300 miles of driving seems high, but could be due to rings not seating, or break in. The amount of blue smoke from that much oil consumption would not necessarily be noticible from the exhaust.

If you are using 10/30 with a new engine, this would not be alarming to me unless it didn't get better in the next 500 to 1,000 miles. Once settled it shouldn't use more than a quart in 1,500 miles. All bets are off if you were driving at sustained high speeds.

By the way, did you retain the original crank case ventilation system, or convert it to a pcv system? If converted to pcv, check it out thoroughly as you could be sucking it through due to a problem there.

Paul W.

In an email dated 25/5/2005 5:21:56 am GMT Daylight time, "Ernie Stepney" <estepney@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Well The Black Bitc_!! had her first road trip this weekend, Vancouver
>to Prince George and back, 1113 miles according to the trip odometer.
>Gas mileage worked out to an average of just under 18 MPG with a best
>tank full at 19.2, those are our jumbo size Canadian gallons of course,
>not bad for 5000 pounds and 392 CID. 
>Only found a few minor problems like, I had leaned out the metering rods
>too much so every once in a while she would start missing on a light to
>moderate pull. Pulled the spark plugs out when I got home and the
>insulators are bone white so I guess I over did it when I leaned her out
>for AirCare. 
>One large question, what do Hemis do with all the oil. She used a quart
>every 300 miles, leaks a little, but not that much, and no blue smoke
>according to a fellow enthusiast who followed me for 100 miles. Any
>ideas. 
>
>Ernie and The Black Bitc_!!
>
>
>
>
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