[unruhjonny]

I watched the video, then like some of you stopped when he signed off;
After reading your comments, I went back to catch the very last of it...

My thoughts on the idle sound;
I agree it did not sound like a 041.
I seem to recall that running a 744 cam with unported #12 heads, was REALLY lopey at 700-850(?)rpm.
I thought when he was running the engine it generally sounded terrible;
It sounded like it was lugging and just plain unhappy;
Every time he ran it, you could see he would push the throttle to a point, and the revs would go down for a bit before slowly recovering..

He definitely seemed a bit uptight/worried about the Pontiac - or maybe that's just the way he is;
If uptight/worried isn't his natural state, then I would think he really was out of his element.
Maybe that explains the 20w50??

I don't want to seem to knock a guy for not cutting apparent mishaps from the video (I liked seeing the trial and error stuff), or for working on an engine (and parts) as essentially supplied to him.

As a side query;
Am I the only one to think that if that other Quadrajet was somehow determined to run at 20:1 AFR;
Shouldn't he have been able to resolve the lean AFR to go away from EVER considering running a quadrajet without secondary metering rods??