Advice on my "stock" 340 build

if you're trying to replicate the experience as it was back in the days of yore, then you seem well on the way.

the basics apply to any build: attention to detail, machine work that is en point and careful selection of parts both in quality and compliment go a long, long ways toward building a motor that's better than the average bear.

that being said, unless it was a straight up stock build for a numbers car i'd eschew a lot of the yesteryear and lay down for some of the modern conveyance and reap what has been sown with regard to todays components.

better, lighter pistons with modern ring packs, beehive springs, lighter valves with smaller stems, modernized heads, roller rockers, camshafts with modern grinds and better lobes, carbs that have evolved and are flexible and tuneable across a broader range, headers that fit and function properly.

now there's nothing wrong with a stock 340, especially one that's been blueprinted. it'll run like a striped *** ape. but you have to remember that everything that ma mopar did had a factor of compromise in it. you're uninhibited to build something better if you so choose.