Need help perfecting the budget build hemi swap

I've built what I thought were some really cool projects over the years. But I was single, and had no resposiblities. So the cars were built, and amost immediately on the street driving.
This on the other hand has been a slow process, when I have the time to tinker. ( I posted a video, and had questions about exhaust smoke. ) I think when you get a car running, the worst thing you can do, is not drive it. I put new oil in this car, and within a week, it looks dingy, and has a slight oder of fuel. And even though the smoke out the exhaust looks like steam, I think it from running rich. A carb that isn't tuned right, and idling too much. I haven't figured out yet whether that can be tuned out, whether I need to drop idle fuel pressure below it's current 6.5 lbs, or if I need to go up one on the idle air bleed jets. I need to learn all this yet.
I don't know how to determine this, but I know where to acquire said knowledge. Being that I live 20 minutes north/east from Ray Barton Racing Engines. I try to avoid traveling South/west, because they have a giant vacuum that sucks up wallet out there. But ledgend has it that there lives a mad scientist deep in the forest just outside of town, and his name is Tim. I found him. He's from the old school, but that means there was a lot more tuning involved. ( And yes, if it doesn't have quad turbos, he didn't build it. This is a Duster, and believe it or not a Volve that the scientist built. I think he can teach me how to tune a carb. )