The goal was to run on pump gas. Do you think that is still feasible? Race gas isn't the easiest thing to get a hold of in my area, though a few stations in the city sell 93. I'm familiar with the function of octane and timing. From my understanding, if some timing gets pulled out, lower octane gas will work ok at the expense of some horsepower. Does that sound right?

I'm running a 1411 Edelbrock. I have an AFR gauge and it's set to run a little bit rich right now just because I don't completely know what I'm doing when it comes to power tuning and I know it's better to be rich than lean. I currently have it idling around 13.5 AFR and WOT gets to about 12.0 AFR. I don't know what my timing curve is. I'm using an HEI distributor. Not sure what the exact model is however. It was a piece I was running on the old engine before the rebuild that I bought from Autozone 8 years ago. I have a basic timing light though.