I don't remember having this filling issue last time. This time I only had the front of the car on jack stands when last time she was up on all 4 corners. When I put her back on ground she drank another 1/2 gallon. Everything seemed to be fin after that. The heater was blowing hot and the coolant was also flowing through the rad.
Valve train noise went away. It was just the Lifters. They must all be pumped up now.
So I Drove her around the lake today but when I was going down hill she started to smoke. It happened twice in the same spot but nowhere else. My initial thought was it was some sort of cooling over charge, but it turned out to be oil dumping on the exhaust heat shield. I assumed it was from the valve cover and thoroughly cleaned and resealed it with a different gasket and black rtv. It was a lot of oil. I have never seen that much spill out of a valve cover before. I only used some "right stuff" in the corners on the cover side of the gasket. Nothing on the head side. If it wasn't the valve cover I don't know how it would make its way to the top of the motor like that. The only other likely place would be the exhaust stud that goes to the oil return in the head. That stud was so tight I couldn't remove it when installing the manifold, so I assumed I used locktight on it. Good news is the turbo oil return is not leaking!
I cleaned up the oil the best I could painted the cowl and wiper arms and am now waiting till tomorrow for the black rtv to set up. I'll give it another go in the am.
The logger plug was in and thats why she wouldn't go in to timing mode. Pulled the plug and got it in today. Is it supposed to be 5* or 10* ? I'd assume its the one with the big T under it, correct? Getting a little idle surge too will try to get that ironed out tomorrow.
Here's the interior as of present:
The afr read out in the ash tray is a volt meter connected to my Lc-1. It's on the secondary out put and set up so the voltage is ~ the Lambda reading. It's a general idea of A/f ratio for $5. The Lc-1 led is in the ash tray. If i need to check the status I can open it and look. Not accurate enough to tune off of but good enough to know I'm not going to blow something up. pro sport gauge is fuel pressure and is not hooked up. I don't have a place to tap the sender with the stock fuel set up. That's the radio that came with the car. The stock wiring was cut and the radio harness was connected to the car when I got it. I restored the cars female connectors and made a suitable harness for the radio. I used an 8 pin GM connector to make the gauge pod plug and play. I really want to make a nice on dash gauge pod with carbon fiber or just fiberglass but that will have to wait for now.