Oil consumption

[peterg]

Sure the engine leaks, it's a Bristol! but no, not much. When we got to Dunkirk the plume of smoke on tick over was about 10 feet long (no wind) and other drivers had commented on the amount of smoke coming out of the car on the run over the weekend.

This was the first run over 40 miles as mostly it is only driven from home to where I keep it due to the constant problems I have had. It has also had numerous oil changes (aprox every 400 miles), so I didn't check the oil level very often.

I was told about 100 hours and this matched the costs from another repairer.

The engine runs rather well once off tick over with no misfiring. Performance wise this is the only Bristol I have driven. It seems a little slow off the mark but quite perky once it is rolling along. I red line it at 4,000 rpm.