First start did not go so good.

[Xavier]

Update; Oil pressure problem fixed.

Taking off the valve cover led me to question how the oil got up underneath the valve covers if I never once had pressure and I went back to the series of events that took place before the initial start.

I originally (before starting) primed the engine with a drill, for a 10 minutes looking for leaks and other things I am doing it, but never checked for pressure because I noticed a leak coming from my -AN fitting off of the remote oil filter bracket. It had a harline crack in the bulk fitting. I went to replace it, but I had to remove both NPT fittings to do so. When I placed the hoses back on, after replacing the -AN fitting, I put them on back wards (inlet was outlet and vise versa); thus no pressure. Engine builder recommended that I look at that closely, because the odds of not being able to prime a oil pump they thought are in the millions, even after a year of sitting. They were more upset about my problem than I was, or close to it.

As soon as I swaped them last night; boom 60 to 70 PSI of oil pressure with the drill. Embarassing but at least it is fixed. Now on to the rough start problem next. Could not start it last night in fear that I would have the police on me once I wake up the entire neighborhood.

I had a heavy ground wire running from the block to the frame, but I am going to replace it with a heavy gauge battery wire with pressed ends, 4ga I think. I do not believe the distributor cap was sitting flush on the distributor, it seemed to be sitting on the rim of it on the back.