Cam suggestions, please

AJ/FormS, that was a really thoughtful post with lots of new information. Thank you very much for going to the trouble of replying in such detail. I am printing this thread out to keep forever!

However, as IQ52 pointed out, my cam has 244 degrees of duration at .050, not the 236 degrees that I had thought in my original post. (Danged parts house filled the cam card out wrong.)

So I guess that means I have 48 degrees of ramp rather than 56 degrees. Do you think it should therefore idle fairly decently with the right torque converter, timing, etc.?