Brent P wrote:
Interestingly enough, I ran into the new owner a few months later. He
said that he loved the car, but couldn't figure out where the oil went.
I told him that I never did either, no drips, clean exhaust pipe
inside, no oil smell...

In article <1163233828.332593.146340 (AT) h54g2000cwb (DOT) googlegroups.com>, Studeman wrote:
Vega engines had an unsleaved AL block. The idea was to have particles of
a hard material spaced equally throughout the block. This would keep the
bores from wwearing away. It worked well as a way to make race engines.
Keep in mind that race engines are made carefully, slowly, and didn't
have long lives. Production of a cheap car is fast and not so careful.
Thusly the distribution was off and cylinder bores wore. The oil was
burned as a result.

The vega my parents' had leaked and burned it. The slick in the driveway
was there for years after the car was gone.

SteveH wrote:
You got that far? I took one look at the unreadable site and thought
this bloke knows ugly.