well, its been nearly a year now. and boy do i feel silly. my lack of power came from bent valves. yup, i managed to install the pistons with the valve reliefs down. lack of experience for sure, but wait, the rods were positioned correctly on the crank. ah, the machine shop installed the rods wrong on the pistons. i did check for p to v clearance, but failed to do so when i switched to 1.65 rocker from 1.5. that was just enough to bring piston into contact with valve. lesson learned for me and the machine shop. i did swap back to the 290b-6. and am pretty happy with it. i installed it straight up to aid with running on pump gas. it worked. but wait theres more...
my miss is still there, for the love of god it is still there! not to mention, my new found power seems to be eating up my trans. guess i will be learning how to rebuild a th400 soon. and i think i will have to just try a new distributor. anyway, live and learn.
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 Old enough to know better, but still too young to care. 
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