Most of us are not building/racing in highly competitive race classes, so as long your satisfied with the results/compromises that's all that matters, the build doesn't have be done to someone else's idea of proper/right/best etc.. way of doing it.
Exactamundo. And I tell you something. If I was building a race only, or really hot street/race car, you know what I would do? I would use one of the recipes out of the Mopar Performance engine manual. They still SLAP WORK.