The car is back on the street now and has about 100 miles on it. Break in oil looks like it was new at this point. I ended up going with the same Comp cam 51-433-11 and Johnson lifters. We performed the lifter bore modification as well. So far the engine runs great and is fairly quiet around the valve train. Much better than before. Oddly enough, the engine now makes enough vacuum to run the power brakes. I was using a vacuum pump before this rebuild. The shop said the cam was retarded a few degrees and they installed it at zero. I'm looking forward to my first oil change at 500 miles I'll be cutting the filter and hopefully not finding much.
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