Why is it so hard to get good advice !!???

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Plenty of progress and much of it is due to the help of some members here and elsewhere. RustyRatRod has been a great asset and has provided some help where I needed it.
The Lunati cam felt tight in the block. Even with a cam sprocket on it, I couldn't spin the cam by hand. I needed a ratchet or a breaker bar to rotate just the cam itself. I read and researched about it. Apparantly Mopar big blocks often have this problem. Several "fixes" were out there. I could have polished the cam journals, I could have removed the engine and had new cam bearings put in...I went with a method that was similar to what was done when these engines were new. I "cut" the bearings with them in the block. My machinist showed me an old BB cam with grooves cut into the journals. At home, I did the same but put axle grease in the grooves to collect the shavings. After spinning the cutter cam in the block a few times, I pulled it, cleaned it up, regreased it and put it in again. Now the cam spins like it should.
Degreeing was a pisser at first. I bent the piston stop twice because turning the engine over was so difficult, I couldn't tell when I was hitting the stop. After removing the spark plugs, it was easier to spin the engine and feel it when I touched the piston stop. I came up with a 110 number. The cam is listed as having a 108 LSA with an installed centerline of 106. I guess that means that I am 4 degrees retarded. Tomorrow I'll switch the crank gear to the 4 degree ADV setting and recheck the numbers.