My doomed 408 build

Well I've already given my best advice and I really hope things turn out well. I'll say it one more time just to clear my conscience. Dealing with people all the way across the country who will never see your engine and be able to put there eyeballs on it and give you some hands on help is not the best Direction in my opinion. I can already see the writing on the wall- "well it's a few thousand miles away so it's hard for me to tell". I sent a friend to PIR to have his Trans Am motor rebuilt and after we broke it in and developed a tick. it was very nice to be able to throw it on my car trailer and drag it over and have Ted look at it and tell us the easy non invasive way to fix it quickly. He surely couldn't tell us what it was over the phone...