PRH, you have been very helpful I appreciate your knowledge.
After re-reading everything, I would like to state the car is 20% street, 80% strip. I originally bought the car so I could use my father in laws wrecked one to rebuild his car. Then My father in law said he wouldn't drive a purple car. I got stuck with it. Since it was started being built in to a drag car, I went that route. The car is for doing the summer Cruz and drag strip as I'd like to start bracket racing
If the Cam flattens again, I will be replacing the block. And get a new cam from Hughes.
Yes, I have crane gold 1.5 roller rockers.
Since my heads were new out of box and they were unmolested at this point, I am sure that the locks have not been upgraded. I just ordered a set locks from summit along with an oil pump primer tool. Thanks for the heads up!!
I also had ordered a kit for building push rods from Hughes.
As for doing the dyno, I wanted to get the car set up and baselined before I went to the track and wranged it out. I wanted to make sure there were no build problems and that the cam install went correctly. I also wanted to find where the power band was so I knew when to shift. To me that was worth the extra $400.
You have to remember that the pissed off Owner didn't make a cent off of me, as the defunct shop operator was the person who I paid. My engine was mid way getting rebuilt when pissed off shop owner took over the shop. That money didn't get paid to the shop owner. The shop owner did every thing he could to limit his cost of finishing my rebuild. Not changing the springs as required was one of his cost cutting methods.
