Where's the Wow?

6 pages in and I'm now worried that all the work I did on changing over to a 268 in my 340 is going to be for naught.

I hope this all works out for you OP.
Apples and oranges....Your engine started with a lot more SCR/DCR, with pistons slightly out of the hole, not .080" in the hole like here. Your compression readings were the same or higher than this 360 with the old cam that you started with. (Which we never found out if it WAS a 285 duration cam...) If you have it back together now, put in the compression tester and see where you are versus where you were on cranking compression. See if it is up to around the 150 ish range now.

And keep in mind, the OP here needs to go back and review things like ignition timing and work on some tuning stuff now. And then there is question on his torque convertor stall speed...