Mopar 383 help please

I went to LOWES and got a fitting. Plugged it up. Started the car and it takes my foot being on the gas to get it to warm up. Guess I got some carb tuning still. Once warm it idles good but the vacuum still reads 5. So I advanced it to what looked like 12 degrees. Just a hair past the 10 line. Sounds better, idles higher but doesnt sound too high. Vacuum is now at 7 with a ecstatic needle still. The ticking is definitely in the engine somewhere seems to be louder on drivers side but not sure if its under the cover now. Almost like lifter valley. Hard to pinpoint with the fan in my ear too. But that is where it is strongest. But its not obnoxious like I thought yesterday. I might have been exaggerating from frustration. But its definitely noticeable. Also when I gave it slight gas the rpms didn't come down after I took my foot off the gas, they kinda slowly went up and stayed. Had to put it in D and back to P to get it to come down again. Not sure what that is about. In D the idle comes way down almost close to a rough idle. Also I noticed today that my fuel filter was filled full of gas. It had hardly gas I could see in it but it still ran the same. Not sure if that means anything. Yesterday I saw it full.

Ill try to get vid up before the end of the day.