Intake Leak???

I recently had a chevy small block 350 rebuilt. I also put a WEIND aluminum intake and holley carb on it. It is now 200 miles after the install and it has burned @ least four quarts of oil and only smokes out of the right tail pipe. I drove the machine shop tha rebuilt the motor for them to look at it. They told me that the compression was good. Has anybody ever heard of the intake not seating right and sucking oil in? Is his possible. Has anybody heard of this?

 

Does the smoke smell sweet?
Maybe coolant. "Head gasket/intake gasket"
Though that would'nt explaine the oil consumption

 

No it's blue smoke. It also burned four quarts.

 

Did you check your plugs to see which cylinder is burning it?
Thats where I'd start..
Sorry if If I'm not much help.
Maybe Squirrel will chime in?

 

I've had a similar problem with a stock aluminum intake. The last time I installed it I (stupidly!) followed the instructions for the gaskets and didn't use gasket sealer on the intake gaskets. I can temporarily stop the problem by tightening the intake bolts.

 

I've heard of it. And after HUNDREDS of installs it happened to me 4 months ago. Yes, it's possible. Just pull the intake and have a peek. You'll see it if that's the problem. And yes, i'm in love with your Elcamino. And yes, PM me if you ever decide to sell it. I don't care how much oil it uses. Is that avatar pic at Ventura Fairgrounds? Back to Beach or Primer nats?

 

Had the same problem a few years ago with a 283, right side bank cylinder 8 bad valve guides. 4 qts of oil in 200 miles must be puffin some smoke seems excessive

 

Thanks Groucho, Im going to look at it after work. The machine shop told me that there was oil in the all over the intake ports.
And yeah, that was back to the beach , and it's the impala that's leaking.

 

All ya changed was the intake ?? I have seen a similar problem once where the PCV valve was bad and it was sucking Oil from the valve cover straight into the manifold.

Also, you may wanna call Angel..... for some reason i thought he had some sorta problem with the heads & intake on that car when he built it ... maybe im wrong, but its only a phone call away.

 

I ran a milling machine in an auto machine shop 40 yrs. ago.
I saw a problem with intakes sucking oil from the tappet valley on
a couple of SBC's that had the heads milled drastically and had the
intake sides of the heads milled to where the sealing surface was too
skinny to make a good seal.
One of them was a B/G anglia w/327,Hilborn injection,etc.(in '63).
It ran like a spotted assed ape but would completely foul a set of
plugs with only one run.The heads were milled .080 I think.
The intake runners would be coated with oil also after a run.
The rings,guides and valves were good.Took a while to figure it out!
Hope that's not your problem but it almost has to be sucking the
oil from the lifter chamber to get into the intake...right?