[ClickClickBoom]

Originally Posted by darrin

clickclickboom -- believe Steve's indicating that it takes over 2k miles before his engine requires a quart of oil, not that he's only 2k miles past a rebuild.

I agree wholeheartedly with your "drive it" comment -- had to get the top end rebuilt on my '86 when, at 80k miles, I was barely getting 500 miles per quart. Post-rebuild, I put around 10k miles on it per year and was still seeing over 2k miles per quart when, with over 100k miles on the top end, I decided to bump it to a 3.4.

Do wonder, however, whether the OP's engine may well have also been cursed with premature valve guide wear that affects some '86 engines (like mine) and whether the damage has already been done (and can not be rectified) -- On mine, the valves' lateral play made it pretty clear that the guides were SHOT

Proof that these engines and chassis aren’t that fragile:
Almost 1000 hp from 1980s technology, 930/82 3.2l , pissed off:

https://youtu.be/wPfK_BispVo