Okay, 1G stock motor/new rebuild dr650 car on e85 running 28psi. Was tuning the car after about 1500 miles (dont ask) and started to over heat in 3rd and 4th after high boost pulls. When I checked the coolant I noticed some oil in the coolant, but no coolant in oil. I flushed and decided to keep an eye on it. Shortly after doing some more pulls I started getting some crazy blow-by, blew the hose between valve covers out, blew the camshaft seal caps out. So I bought a catch can, and routed the valve covers to the catch can. No dice, it just pressurized the catch can and blew oil out the top of that. Finally did a compression test and the results were, front bank all ~170, rear 30, 60,and 170ish. So I think head gasket, probly from overheating. I replaced the rear head gasket with MLS, I made sure to inspect the cylinder walls to look for scoring from a possible bad ring, looked good. I replace the head and put it all back together. Now the same blow by, there is actually exhaust coming out of the valve cover vents now. And compression numbers are exactly the same. I know rings are a possibility but the walls looked great. Is there anything I am missing?
Thanks for any help you can offer.


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. As suggested already, do a leakdown test to see if it's valve or ring related. Also pressurize your coolant system to see if you breached the head gasket again.

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