Hello all, and thanks for all of the patience and help.

Im still not making smart choices but progressing anyway. still looking into lumpy cam(Oregon or Mummert 284/292) in a 292 - 330 motor(2nd block with 312 crank to offset) non posted semi ported g heads, stainless valves and hardened seats, 1.54 rockers. 6k-6500 redline max in a roughly 3000 lb manual ranchero. my current distraction from progress is valvetrain. looking into beehive valve springs but valvetrain was still voodoo after school went way too far too fast to really understand.

For beehive valve springs ive found pac 100@1.750 285@1.215, fell like open pressure is a bit high, found a set of Howards with 120 @1.68 and 295 at 1.175. From another recent post adjusting opening up install height toward 1.750 (95.5@1.750 and 280.5@1.245) be happier? any help of articles to reread would be appreciated.