Finally got around to breaking in my new motor last night. I followed motoman's break in procedure, but I think I may have taken it too far. I did 4 or 5 2nd gear pulls up to around 6-6500. I would run it up at partial throttle, then let it development back down to 2000, decel took substantially longer than accel. So after this I keep doing smaller accel and decel in 3rd. About a mile later I look down and start seeing my oil pressure gauge bouncing all over, so I proceed to limp the car home, oil pressure continues to fluctuate the rest of the way back. I get it into the garage and the valve train is noisy. I pull the dipstick there is barely any oil in it. So I jack the car up and drain the pan, I get about 3 quarts out of the 6 I put in it. The front of the motor on the drivers side is now covered in oil. I'm sure the high rpm slow decel made some crazy oil pressure. Where did all this oil come from?
On another note, my repair to my radiator end tank failed and sprayed coolant everywhere. Just freshly rebuilt this and painted everything.
In the oil that came out and the filter there was no metal at all. This motor had about 30 miles on it. Should I check the main and Rod bearings? Where did all the oil escape from?
Bad night all together, this car keeps fighting me.