thanks for your help guys, I seem to notice a good bit of smoke coming out of my pipes just at random times, and I was wondering if this is normal, I know there is going to be some until the rings fully seat but it just kinda makes me feel uneasy about it. I put about 150 miles on this engine so far but have just been driving it really easy, but not lugging the engine. I inspected the cylinders and they still had cross hatching on them. the last time I built this engine it smoked until the day I pulled it out and I put like 20,000 miles on it. I rebuilt it cause I left a spacer out on my bellhousing adapter kit for my six speed and it wore the thrust bearing out and was making a knock. I was really hard on that engine though, even before 500 miles after the build I was balls to the wall. I also read somewhere that my screw in studs in my head could have some oil seeping through and into the intake runner. Or my carb is dumping too much fuel and washing the cylinders of oil. not sure but anymore suggestions, cause I'm all ears.