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Gary, I feel your pain.
The first thing you need to do is get that intake off, and clean both mating surfaces good before putting on new intake gaskets.
If the heads, and manifold arent warped due too excesive heat, you proably have that problem fixed with correct intake gaskets.
Now, the oil problem.
Check this before you install the intake again.
Do you see a lot of smoke coming out the tailpipe, and if so, what color is it?
The amount of oil the engine is using is extremely excessive, and what you might want to look at is the push rod cover (valley pan) gasket.
Something tells me it is missing, which would account for the huge amount of oil consumption.
When rebuilding an engine, that gasket is easy to overlook, and I have seen engines where it was not installed at all, especially the small rubber pieces that are on the extreme front and rear of the cover.
It makes for a real messy engine.
Check these two things I mentioned, and get back and let us know what you found.
Bob.
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