[V8] Gas hog V8s

[Buchholz, Steven]

I heartily recommend trying to use one of the valve cleaning treatments
(SeaFoam, Top End Cleaner, ...) before getting too far into an engine
tear down ... 

Old #344 cleaned its act right up after a SeaFoam treatment ... I don't
remember seeing a blue cloud once afterward.  Of course if you've seen
how much smoke comes out during the treatment you wonder if the total
amount put out by the engine I the same, it just gets it out of the
system at once ... ;-)

#2 seems to have cleaned up its act too, but with the new engine that is
pretty much expected ... ;-)

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)

> My big dilemma is weather or not to do a valve job. My car runs pretty
good,
> but
> it sucks oil like we could just blow it out of the ground in Iraq and
have it
> land in out tanks. (really about 700mi/qt) The payback for a $3000
(guessing)
> valve job is about 840K miles (with oil at $2.50/qt). I am pretty sure
I will
> move on by then :-)