Thanks Paul, it's sure is nice to be "back in the saddle"!
A few hundred miles on the new motor and so far so good! Runs strong, no leaks and SURPRISE, around 10 mpg. Thats up from 6 mpg! Much more street friendly, I cruise around in 4th gear a lot, motor pulls smoothly from 2000 rpm up to ?????, don't know yet!
Stop and go traffic, hot day, got up to 210 Deg F, no boil over and it was fine. It just keeps getting better! I'm thinking about doing the 1/4 mile soon. Old time: 11.904 at 121 mph New time: ??? ???
...stay tuned!