Thanks, guys.
Neil, I'm still trying to get it to idle just precisely right.
Yours fell into a nice, steady idle right out of the box. Sounded like I was walking the paddock at Road America.
Stan - It was slow to get up to temp, and I needed to keep a bit of throttle on it to keep it from croakin'. I also need to work on the transition circuit on the Holley, but given the cam - it seems pretty stout - I doubt if I'll be able to set the idle much below 1000 rpm. Better to have kept the revs up and not stalled.
Terry, I think you've put together a class A street motor. I'm looking forward to getting it on the open road and seeing how it does in 4th and 5th gears.
Considering how long the gears are - 2.6 something - it's got a lot of snap. I remember doing some calculations on Sumner's spreadsheet, and 100 mph in 5th is just a tick below 3000 rpm. So Ideally, I'm most concerned about lower-midrange tuning.