aluminum block is in

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late night wtf am i doing up in the middle of the night update

well, it runs, so far. after all the prestart checks and what not and a few hiccups it fired right up. one problem the dist. gear wasn't installed far enough on the shaft and was bottoming out on the block turning the dist and timing off, other than that it would have started up i think. efi is niiice. i think i would go out of my way to use it if at all possible. the a/f ratio is lean enough at idle i didn't get my eyes burned out and acceleration off idle during warmup is good. primed oil with drill and belt was easy enough, running press was 50 cold and dropped to 25 hot at idle, don't know what hot pressure at higher rpms will be yet but i put one turn on the screw. checked the screen on top of the tank to see how much debris there was, and i knew there would be some and it wasn't bad, but looking at that stuff knowing how careful i was and it is still there.....plus fuzz & lint. initially the solid roller valves were set at .006 cold but when checked hot were still too much. adjusted hot and on cool down clearance was .002 neighborhood, since that is the thinnest feeler gauge available, so that is what i set them at, .002in/.003ex. will prob check again sometime and see how close i am, guess some have to run them at 0 clearance cold. with the stud girdle it is kinda tricky cause everytime i tightened it down the clearance would change but figured out i could put 10# on the girdle nuts and still turn the adjusters tapping with a hammer. think we'll have to iron out some of the efi stuff with a tuner.

next step, it's hittin the road.