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Here's some areas I've replaced leaky seals: Oil pump, cam seal, crank seal, rear main seal, valve cover seal, and valve seals. Thing is, most of those you can trace to the leaky source so if you can't I would imagine it's burning oil internally...but you said no blue smoke so that's kind of weird.

Valve seals will blow blue smoke too but usually just at start up.

Also when you say barely a quart of oil in the engine when ready for an oil change, do you mean there's barely any on the dipstick? If that's the case, that's only about a quart worth of loss. If your engine didn't have any oil in it, it would surely die in minutes while running.

Your motor is junk. St's are known for eating oil when higher milage. My buddy works at a yota dealership, they Dont even recommend re-ringing it, just total motor job. You could try if you or you know someone with awesome mechanical skills, but that's a lot of work for a short life unfortunately.

I dought valve seals would leak this fast but also possible. St's are almost always rings...

They make a specialty chemical you can add to your oil to de-gloss your cylinders. Takes a while to work (500 miles?) And then it can slow it, but not stop it (experience, also never heard anyone say it completely fixed their problem.) But you must be having some type of smoke problem. Might be hard ro see it in winter, but that's quite a bit to loose.

Pull off your air intake from your throttle body. See if there is any oil in there as well.

I have the gt-four hood aswell, from what I've read, the stock hood won't fit with the gt-four bumper. I had to take off the stock crash bar. Right now I'm riding with no crash bar but this weekend I'm going to get the gt-four crash bar cut and bolted on. It's a really easy conversion, I was really surprised