Well..... things didnt go so well.

We got everything tight and dry. Took it a good 10 mins to start up.
As we let her run, and took the revs up a bit, the smoke just got worse and worse...
The car will not stay running under it's own power. Will not idle.
Took the car around the block. Smoked it all up. Car has NO power. You can tell it has almost no compression. This motor is toast. The rings will not be seating anytime soon. There is more blowby then I've ever seen out of any motor.

The machine shop will be hearing about this, bigtime.

They will source me out a replacment motor before I spend another ounce of energy on this car.