Mike, have you ever took the time to measure clearances throughout the engine, or have you always got away with bolting it together?
I know a lot of guys get away with doing it, but I think it's a little misleading to think you can just bolt it all together.
Collin, have tou tried a fresh filter and some run time to see if the engine is eating itself or of you just got left over trash?
Joe
the engine in my car only had ring end gap checked and adjusted by me. I've always had to trust a machine shop to do what they say they did ( a. 010 under cut requiring a. 010 over bearing)
I still don't think that you'll get anything more from anybody that doesn't have to. In other words....How do you know that machine shop that assembled the engine for you checked anything either?
I paid to have one engine assembled for me by a local machine shop here.
The crank trigger was incorrectly installed....it was so far out of time,..that we couldn't get the engine into boost... And we had head gasket leaks out the tail pipes.
They fixed it, ....but I still had to pull the heads back off.
The only person you can trust to do things right is you. If you choose ( like me) to believe that skirt clearances are right, and bearing clearances are right, then you take your chances......and buy the bearings, throw the pistons in the holes, and run it.
It may throw oil all over the place when it's in boost.......it may not.
Collin may get a shop that checks everything for what they're charging, and they may not...wholl ever know? If the freakin thing runs like its sposed to, then whose gonna check it after that?
The chunks, and the vibration are tell tales....it didn't do it before, it's doing it now,..something's fcked the fck up.
Half the guys here decide that their times' too precious to do their own work..Half the guys here have more money than the other half. It's okay for them when there's money in the " I'm too important to get greasy" account..but the other half has to do for themselves....or the car sits.
So you learn. You make mistakes, you do sht over, and you learn some more. Sooner or later, you come to terms..
Either you figure it out, or your sht sits waiting till you build up your " I'm too important to get greasy " fund.