The biggest problem on start up was a pretty significant rear main seal leak. I have a good PCV system, creating a nice vacuum in the block, so it was not related to that.
In the end, I had to pull the pan in the car, and remove the rear main cap. This is tough to do on any FE, but especially hard with the frame crossmember in the way. I made a custom puller device, and rocking it back and forth helped a lot.
Blair was nice enough to give me a special rear main seal that he customized to better seal. He thinks the rear seals these days are not what they used to be, but i wouldnt be surprised if the dimensions of the RPM crank are a tiny bit off. The crank was a tiny bit off at the flywheel end for mounting, and required some slight sanding by me, as well as at the balancer mounting location.
I also had a nice
oil leak at the remote
oil mounting block, which was a billet aluminum piece from Precision
Oil Pumps. I couldnt get those guys to answer their phone or my email, so I bought one from somewhere online (maybe moroso?) and it is not quite as pretty but does not leak at all.