Is this normal, or am I really that sick?

I've owned a few /6 powered vehicles from F bodies to 1/2 ton 2wd trucks. and have driven many more over the years turning wrenches. some surprised me in a good way while others, well, they are a small inline 6. Moms 79 Lebaron, my 80 volare were positive surprises, Dads 82 Diplomat was one of the letdowns. My trucks have always gotten the job done. I swapped engines in my 79 D100 first to another /6 then to a 69 318. the original engine was great and held its own til somehow I lost a couple of cam teeth. Then I put another 225 in. What an oil burning slug. Big letdown vs the original. which was why it then got the 318. I now have an 85 150 long bed with 727 and 3.21 gears, I built a /6 to replace its original. and my first "hop up" of a /6. It remains to be seen how much difference there is in this one to the original. Which got sold to a guy in Michigan and after a pan swap and other gasket replacement went right into one of his vehicles, I got a pic within a week of his early 60s A body driving around with the original /6 out of my truck under the hood.... If I can get that 85s interior back together this winter I will be driving that as my summer "work truck" this year..... gotta finish the AC install and replace all the cracked out seam sealer.... but remembering how it drove when I got it, if its ANY improvement over how it was then itll be more fun to drive than my '12 boring appliance of a Dodge 1/2 ton with its 4.7.....