<VV> A pint of oil over the 900 miles (Was: Well EXCUSE me...)

[Mikeamauro at aol.com]

"...you only used a pint of oil over the 900 miles (and going pretty fast,  
too)..."  
 
The 67 coupe has 40+ forged pistons with moly rings. During boring,  the 
cylinders were clamped tightly--much like they would be when installed  in 
use; we made a fixture comprised of 1/2 a cylinder block with a  steel plate 
over top of the cylinders. This method resulted in very round  and extremely 
straight bores. I've been running about 5,000 miles between  oil changes; 
but, even at that mileage, the oil has remained clear enough to  plainly see 
the "full" and "add" embossing and silver color of the dip stick.  While not 
new car technology, the tolerances achieved are certainly better than  that 
of the 60s. I can supply pictures of the fixture if anyone is  interested. 
 
 Mike
 
 
In a message dated 11/22/2009 7:10:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
bryan at skiblack.com writes:

I've  been a little busy, but when I read the original the thing that   
caught my eye more than the MPG was the fact that even with a pretty   
good load, you only used a pint of oil over the 900  miles.

--Bryan

On Nov 21, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Mikeamauro at aol.com  wrote:

> The whole point of my original post, whereas I relayed I  just   
> returned
> from a 900 + mile trip; burned only  a pint of oil, and averaged 23  
> MPG  (in my
> 67 PG,  110 Coupe, factory air coupe); while pushing along between  
>  70-80
> MPH, was that it was nice to know a 40+ year old Corvair could  run  
> well with
> the  "big dogs" on the  interstate.