I took the advice and removed the intake, went out and bought the proper edelbrock intake gaskets and gasgacinch glue. I scraped and degreased the heads, and ends of the block plenum. Applied gasgacinch and the edelbrock intake gaskets to the heads, and 1/4" of black rtv to the cast plenum ends. I overlapped 5/8" up the intake gasket on each corner, quickly laid the intake and torqued in the proper order each bolt to 20 ft lbs.

I installed everything ontop of the intake and let it sit about 15 hours to dry/seal up. I started the motor, this time it seemed to run much smoother over 1500rpm, it almost sounds normal, it will start to come down to idle but now when it drops past 1000 it seems to just die, it wants to go, it will puff and cough as it's dying, then just shut off. I checked my idle mixture screws on the rocherster q-jet and I found them turned out almost 8x. I read online to turn them in all the way gently, and begin calibration at 1 1/2 turns out. So thats where I am at.. also very frustrated. HALP!!!!