Frankenstein318

No need to hit the panic button. I was going over what you had. Everything adds up except the cylinder heads, 3769973 . My book shows a 3769974 however. The number I came up with is for a 360 CID engine. The engine you describe in your car is the Diplomat cop car motor less the roller cam (we think). Besides the big ports, the head yields low compression. As a combo, it works.

As far as the running aspects are concerned, it would be easy to over carb and over cam. IMO, you've made a good carb choice.

Back in the day, We had a problem with a 427 Ford that wouldn't tune. We set valves hot, valves cold, checked the ignition system up one side and down the other. In frustration one of the guys shut the lights off to get us to go home and think this one through. When he did, we noticed a blue flame reflecting off the engine. We traced it back to a cracked distributor cap. It was just a little hairline crack that one a couple of us could tell with the naked eye and then only because we knew where to look.