Well the bike came apart today to fix the oil leak.

The cam and rockers look excellent!

This is a Webcam Stage 3 from Lancer.

The top of the piston with 500 miles of break in oil and a somewhat easy riding with limited full throttle use (no extended speed runs).  However I did ride at 60-70 mph a few times.

There is a light carbon accumulation in the center - the edges have the Cerakote thermal barrier showing.

The piston skirts look pretty good overall.

There is also no carbon along the sides of the piston at the rings.

I removed the rings from the piston and cleaned up the cylinder and piston.

I checked the clearance using a feeler gauge - a 0.005" feeler gauge was a pretty tight fit.  The Wiseco specified minimum clearance is 0.0025" for this piston.

The cylinder was a pretty good looking one - the best stock 94mm cylinder that I had.  However - it may be the wear is a bit excessive and is allowing the piston to mover around a bit.

There is wear on the bottom edge of the piston skirt.

I am going to take the piston and cylinder and get the clearance measured by my friends at a machine shop.

I am then going to send the piston to Line2Line coatings to get an abradable piston skirt coating applied.  This coating will reduce the clearance and allow the piston to wear into the cylinder with tighter clearances than is possible with the aluminum.

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I wonder if this could be the cause of the oil leaking out of my head gasket.

Tonight I looked at the head gasket a bit closer - and I was surprised to see that the only black coating was on the top of the top ply and the bottom of the bottom ply.  There is no black coating between the inner layers.......that is not how I remember things.  The adjoining surfaces interior to the head gasket are all shiny, and that doesn't seem like a good way to seal and prevent the flow of oil from the port that carries oil from the cylinder up to the head.

Maybe I'm not seeing things correctly, but it looks like the gasket you installed only has two layers (top & bottom).  I believe the MLS gasket is supposed to be three layers (top Black, center stainless steel, bottom black).  Did your leaky gasket only have two layers?

That being said, I can't say whether or not the two-layer gasket is bad or good.  I guess that would depend on the manufacturer.  If they designed it to function with only two layers maybe it's an OK thing, but I prefer the OEM MLS gasket.  All of the MLS gaskets I have worked with in the past were three-layer.

Now that I've rambled on about two-layer vs three-layer, I have to add that I always had oil permeating all through the OEM gaskets on teardown.  There really isn't much of anything to keep the pressurized oil from migrating throughout the layers.  The rolled beads face up on the top layer and down on the bottom layer, so I have never figured out exactly what is supposed to keep oil from squeezing through the center of the sandwich.  I switched to an external oil feed to eliminate that gremlin.  The increased oil pressure from the high-speed gear drive only aggravates the condition.

I see a nice ring around the forward head stud hole in the cylinder.  I am guessing your stud is staying put and hasn't started migrating downward.  Looks like the shiny condition is due to zero coating transfer from the gasket to the cylinder deck, a clear sign that the shoulder on the stud is not bearing against the gasket (a good thing).  How does the stud look?  Is it proud or recessed?

Your cam is lookin sweet, as is all the rest of the stuff in there.