Quote Originally Posted by Scott Larson View Post
By the way Mark, I was looking at those pictures again and those cylinder walls look awsome!!
Scott, to tell you the truth I was a little surprised at how good the cylinder walls look. That engine burned 3/4 of a quart of oil every 350 miles from the day I bought it with 35,000 miles on it right up until I had it taken out of the VX at 130,000 miles. That's about 215 quarts of oil over the engines lifetime (and about $1500 if you estimate $7 per quart - OUCH!). With it going through that much oil I figured that the cylinders would be toast, but as the pictures show, that isn't the case.

I still wonder about my theory that the rings don't seat well against the cylinder walls so they don't scrape the walls like they should so the walls stay relatively clean and smooth.