Typical Fuel Pressure?

So I am in the process of bringing my motor (340) up from a deep sleep after body restoration. I never had a fuel pressure gauge and decided to add one. I noticed at the start up cold the fuel pressure was initially 6 psi. After some minor changes in timing and idle and warm up it dropped to ~2.5 psi. From then on it stayed at ~2.5 psi regardless of idle/rpm.
It seemed to be running fine no stalling or anything. I’ll check the float heights when the motor cools down a bit….

I don’t know what caused the drop from about 5/6 psi down to 2.5?

Normal?
Oh and yes I am running a good pre-filter…

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Relocate that fuel filter, it should not be next to the exhaust unless you want the fuel to become vapor. Before you do anything, that's the fist thing you should fix.