New engine noise

I've got one that I have slowly put together over a couple of years, a project "as I have time and money" to do. I got the engine done a couple of months ago and being not in a hurry, I was gonna leave the engine sit on the stand for a while. Didn't know that I wanted to spoil my NOS carb with today's "gas" knowing that I won't be driving it for a while. (Don't have it licensed titles it insured yet) I hope to do the body work this winter before I do all the "legal stuff".
Anyway the point of all that is that I wanted to get the oil flowing sooner than later just because of issues like you brought up.