Quad carb setup information help

So just a quick update on where I’m at before I left for the week. I did get back to the garage but not for very long. I was able to pull the old trans cable out, I dropped the trans pan to change fluid and filter and got pan back on but that’s as far as I got. Now for the week of relaxation.

Once I get the cable back in my plan is to drive the car and get some idea if the timing needs a tweak and also what kind of vacuum I have at different RPM’s and throttle positions. Does anyone have a routine or drive method to get the best info? Also before the distributor change it had a hesitation when adding harder then normal throttle and I thought maybe it was the secondaries coming in to soon. When I built these carbs I bought the diaphragm spring kits and I used the lightest spring that came in the kits. Which one would you have started with. And of course I may need to do some changing to the metering blocks as well. I guess this is where the true tuning begins.
Thanks Rod