I've stagger the rings like the instruction say and then had a bunch of motors dyno tested and took some of the motors apart to inspect them, as already said the rings move around a lot
I had one motor that the gaps had align so they where all in the same exact spot on three pistons, no oil in the combustion chambers though
Back in 1966 when Chevy started making the 396 SS Chevelles some of them had bad oil consumption problems, the word was that the UAW members at the motor factory had intentionally aligned all the ring gaps in a lot of those motors just before the strike that year, who knows if that was another myth or fact
Welcome to the world of tight Mopar cam bearings
I bought a bearing scraper just for that reason