doesnt smoke at idle broke the cam in right after i put my new mufflers on and ran the pipes out the back i noticed it wanted to smoke at 2500rpms is this normal for a new motor???? have the rings not seated yet?

What rings and pistons did you use?
Are the rings gapped correctly?

More details about the engine.

all i know is speedpro pistons 60over was done at a machine shop and i bought the motor from someone that worked there try to find out more

Not at all uncommon for it to smoke.

Most rings take about 500 miles to seat.

Keep and eye on it though, cause there are "rebuild" that are not done right, and the rings never seat.

mine smoked pretty bad(like misquito sprayer bad) untill about 200 miles.. then it slowed down.. now at 800 something miles.. no smoke.. sounds like rings are not seated yet.

different types of rings require different prep to the cylinder wall.

Go and hammer down on the fawker :laughing:

Get the rings to seat in ;)

Go and hammer down on the fawker :laughing:

Get the rings to seat in ;)

actually, not a bad idea.

a few (like 5) years ago, i built a 383 for a customer.

He didnt end up liking 475 hp/ 550 ft-lbs of torque in his 3000 lb corvette... couldnt keep it on the road. so, he only put 250 miles on it before he started bitching. Never drove it more than 3 miles at a time, either. the engine never got warm, never got any rpm, never got a chance to seat the rings.

and he wonders why it smokes...

I finally told him to stop bothering me if he was too chickenshit to drive his car. took me 2 years to get to that point.

im thinking i got more then rings not seated yet oil is looking milky can a intake manifold gasket be leaking to cause water to get into the oil???? im not losing water checked it 50 times any ideas?

did you silicone the head bolts?

did you use steel shim head gaskets with no sealant on them (copper coat)?

did you have the block checked for cracks?

you have a lot of things to check....

change the oil, ASAP. try again.

ok i found out that it wasnt water it was gas in my oil which would be caused by either my carb or fuel pump right? how do i find out which one or do i replace both and now its smoking pretty bad when you rev it is there anything i should do.

I have never heard anything about gas making oil look milky.

Its usually water (coolant of some flavor) that does that.

But, if you say gas, a leaking fuel pump (and I am assuming you are running a mechanical pump) diaphragm can cause fuel to end up in your crank case.

As for the carb, unless you had an electric fuel pump that wouldn't shut off and at the same time were unfortunate enough to have a stuck open float, I kinda doubt your carb is a suspect.

oil smells like gas and you can seee the gas streaks in the oil i put 5 gallons in the tank gauge didnt work soo i didnt know there was 10 gallons of gas thats been sitting for 1 year maybe why it milked up it was more a brown color then anything

You can get fuel in the oil by the diapham pumping fuel into the oil as GMCTruxrule stated. You can also get fuel odor if the rings have not seated--blowing unburned crap past the rings and into the oil...