I got the modification needed done at the exhaust shop today, so thankfully the column shift linkage isn't dragging against the exhaust anymore. Made it much easier to do some shifting on my own tonight.
I'm up to almost 100 miles on it so far since starting on Sunday. Running really well - really haven't played with timing or anything yet but will get into that soon.
For reference, ran it up to about 5000 rpm tonight and boost was about 7 psi there. Nothing exploded that I could see, so I guess that's a good sign.
I do see I'm getting a little oil collecting on top of the valve cover around the PCV Valve. Perhaps there is something special I need to do there- time for more research.
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