SOLVED: HORRIBLE annoying engine tick after heads and cam. Need help!!

About the only 2 things you didnt mention are; A loose guide in the head, a valve sticking in the guide, and an ill fitting rocker arm to pivot shaft. Oh wait thats 3 things. You also didnt mention valve to piston clearance, but thats hard to imagine.
The statement about the noise being not temperature sensitive pretty much rules out a guide problem, so Id check the rocker arm to pivot clearance, even though I doubt thats it.
IDK, really.My first thought was pushrod to tunnel, but you said thats not the noisy side.
Well, there is one other thing. If the valve seat is not concentric with the guide, that could put the valve slightly off center with respect to the valve centerline. That would cause the valve to hit the edge of the seat somewhere, then slide down and center itself, effectively bending the stem. Were talking a couple, to a few, thousands of an inch here.I suppose that could manifest as a ticking.
Can you tell Im grasping at straws here?