400 Rebuild/Stroker Build Newbie Questions

I think that may be the understatement of the year lol
One more thing I ran Edelbrock heads, 9.6 to 1 compression.During the Power Tour had to use 87 octane several times, No pinging and ran just fine.
Good to know. And yeah, rural midwest is not known for high quality gas.

I rambled to comp in their cam wizard tool or whatever so I'll see what they come back with in a few days. Probably hit up a couple other cam manufacturers too just to see if they more or less agree.