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How's oil consumption these days? I'm amazed that synthetic oil had kept the rings from seating, amazing stuff that synthetic oil!

your friend on the DTBB

George you are right on. I built a 350 for a Corvette I had. Without thinking I used sythetic oil before breaking it in. That motor used oil like crazy. I changed the oil back to non sythetic. The stuff must have been stuck to the engine parts, It used oil till the day I sold it. I never did get the rings to seat properly. I have heard that GM had a bulliten out in 1957 that called for pouring Comet or Bon Amee down the carb with it running to seat the rings. I was scared to do it!

Dave,

Your engine compartment is beautiful. I'm particularly interested in your chassis brace (spreader bar?). I have the old Hall-style square tube spreader bar that seats all the way in the fender well recesses, and I was thinking of adding a lower section to this brace like yours. I don't like the new upper rear chassis braces I've seen that place the entire load on the bolt and the little bit of metal they're bolted to.

Did you buy it from a vendor? Or, did you have it custom fabbed? Did you buy someone's rear brace and mate it to the old spreader bar? And, what did it cost?

Thanks,
Garth

So PWT what engine are you going with?????