Originally Posted by hammertime
Have been over this a lot in the last few months, and ended up with total seals back in it. Not that there might be some hp there, seems the low tension rings may be to low tension according to some.
Did you have a vacuum pump with both applications? I know that even after a 100 passes total seals still have a leakdown of less than 3% if the cylinders are indeed round and not excess clearance on the pistons. I also know that the oil will milk on the initial warm up if you don't take steps such as cutting the fuel/shutoff to about 1/2 while the engine warms up, unless you have an idle bypass properly set and i'm talking with total seal rings and running alcohol. I could be very wrong, but the milking of the oil would be the only advantage of running a vacuum pump with total seal rings.
I know this is a tuff question, if it wasn't i might already know the answer, maybe Hink has done this test and will step in or one of the other good builders that are on here.
But the vacuum pump i had spotted, unfortunately was traded today for 30 pieces of silver, but i'm still trying to get it back from the (local) person who got the good deal. O'h well it seems like i'm always a day late and a dollar short.
I used to work for years 1 blk. from total seal rings mfg. co. in phx. and i'd just stop by the office and get the rings i needed, and if they didn't have them they would make them for me in a day or two, that did in effect hook me with their product.
Zip.