Just seen this, that does sound a little high Craig?
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I bought the long block with about 600 miles on it, that's what I was told.
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It always puffed a tiny bit of smoke on cold start, but that only lasted for a few seconds, then disappear completely.
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Two local tuning companies said that it was quite normal for a forged engine, as its to do with the pistons expanding in the bores as they warm up
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- but as there was no piston slap at all, it was nothing to worry about.
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I always used millers 10w 40 synthetic,
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and found I was topping up around 500 ml, every 1k miles, which I wasn't concerned about.
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I hope nothing is wrong with it, I'd be devastated if it was.
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Have you checked to see if the plugs are fouled
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?
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When I had it mapped on the precision turbo, with the power fc, torque developments commented on how strong it sounded, and that it was nice and healthy.
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I don't know how it was originally run in, but it didn't do anything abnormal and I took it easy for the first 400 miles after fitting it, starting by not going over 3k rpm for the first 100, then increasing by 1k rpm every 100 miles travelled
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- of course with no boost, and mineral oil until I'd covered 500 miles, at which point I switched to synthetic and started to introduce boost.
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