I was kind of thinking I would put up with the smoke clouds for a while myself and hope for the best. I drove about 50 miles of backroads today, using 1st gear to 3rd to 5th shifts, or 2nd to 4th whenever I accelerated. I'm thinking the longer periods of heavy throttle between shifts puts more pressure on the rings than normal. After about 100 miles of this I will check to see if compression is rising or falling. For what it's worth, it looked like the smoke clouds were smaller at red lights, after this treatment, but that could be false hope clouding my vision
It's too bad about the smoke after idle, as the motor runs so good in every other respect..... It's also ironic that the motor smoked all the time before the rebuild, but it was never highly visible and never made big plumes leaving red lights (5 of 6 pistons had broken compression rings. Hmmmmmmm.)