SOLVED! 318 2500-3000 rpm idling issue. Don't think its a regular vacuum leak. Swapped 2 intakes, 2 carbs ,and 6 different gaskets still no luck.

Any help troubleshooting this would be appreciated. I'm very stuck and this car is about to be back burnered unfortunatly.

Cam lobe not completely wiped but working towards it ? Or completely wiped ?

If it was a Chi-Com Crosswinds Intake in the last 10-12 years they've had bad issues with porosity. Also they made a direct copy of the Edelbrock Performer RPM except that their molds and tools have been... Rode hard and put up wet. There is coreshift and you really need to take a bore scope and check the runners on it and also the plenum area.

A guy in Chattanooga was selling one for $50, a guy I do engine work for bought it and #3 and #7 runner had extra metal so that flow was okay at idle one day, not the next, and if you had tried to floor it- it bogged and the whole engine just essentially fell on it's ***. It was major coreshift as well as MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR failure in final machining(non-machining).