first time down the track advise?

Congrats! Nothing broke. You kept your head and were able to do a successful test & tune - or at least the test part of it anyway. And as stated before, it sounds like you had fun. Working the kinks out of the system will get you into the lower e.t.s.

How did it hook? - And did it seem to pull pretty good off the line (before the fuel issues)? You may want to reconsider swapping to a deeper set of gears. The 3.23s are a pretty good all round ratio and the steeper the ratio you run will definitely impact fuel economy on the street.