I have a mid size rolling tool box that I use for engine disassembly. Just pull the parts off the engine, bag them in heavy duty plastic bags and put them in the drawers. Rolling tool boxes are fairly inexpensive at Sears and are built well enough to handle stuff like valvetrain parts, head bolts, main caps, bearings, oil pumps, etc.

Looking good Andy!

Thanks Jay. Do you have a set of the clear valve covers available? I'd like to use at least one clear cover for the dyno session. I built clear covers for my Mopar engines but I don't have on for a FE.

The FAST dual synch distributor clears the throttle body but it is tall enough that we'll have to run space the air cleaner up a little bit. Which will then require some hood modifications. A crab cap might work.

I've made a lot of different coil brackets over time. I usually use 10 ga steel since it is fairly easy to work with but still plenty rigid. I'll mount the coil on the end of the head on a race engine or in the valley on a street engine. Here are a few pictures.

The guys who have this really figured out are the ones who run in FAST class. They have to run with stock appearing engines and full stock appearing exhaust. I know some of the tricks that they use but I don't know them all since I haven't done any of that stuff for years. But there is a fairly firm limit on how much duration you can run on the exhaust side when you have manifolds and a full exhaust system. Too much duration and you lose power everywhere. They compensate by running a lot of lift and a ton of compression but they don't run a huge amount of duration. I wouldn't recommend a FAST cam for street use, just bringing it up as an example that you don't want to get too excited with exhaust duration if you are using a full exhaust system.

If you want to see some crazy split cams take a look at what the Chevy engineers are using in the LS engines. The COPO 427 engines have 40 degrees more duration on the exhaust than the intake. Something like 230/270 for duration. I'm not sure how they came up with that. People always say "think outside the box" but I don't think I would've ever thought that far outside the box!  Here is a link to a COPO data sheet:  http://www.jegs.com/p/Chevrolet-Performance/Chevrolet-Performance-427ci-425hp-COPO-Crate-Engine-2012-2015/2804804/10002/-1

You might not be competitive in Pro Stock with a single pattern cam but they'll work just fine on the street. In fact, a good single pattern cams work much better than a poorly designed dual pattern cam. There isn't anything magic about a dual pattern cam, the engine wants what the engine wants.

I had a 466 inch big block in my street car for a long time and I used that engine as a test bed for a lot of parts including cams. I was doing magazine articles in those days so I was hooked up with the cam mfgs and none of the cams they sent me other worked better than the old single pattern flat tappet that I had. Comp sent me three cams for that engine. The first one was too big. It made a tiny bit more top end power but gave up a bunch of torque. They followed up with a slightly smaller cam that worked better but still wasn't as good as my old single pattern. The third cam they sent me was pretty good but I still went back to the old single pattern. The Comp engineer was sure that their new fast rate lobes and dedicated exhaust lobes were better than my 40 year old design but it didn't turn out that way.

On a street engine it is easy to out-trick yourself and to use a bunch of race stuff that doesn't actually work on a street engine. The super fast rate cams wear out on the street and they don't necessarily work very well with a full exhaust system. So if you get a dual pattern cam with the latest lobe designs it might not work as well as an old factory type design with slower lobes. Bottom line is that I wouldn't turn up my nose at a single pattern cam for a street car. I run them all the time and they work just fine. A dual pattern cam might be better, but then again it might be worse. In my case the stuff that the cam engineers thought would be better wasn't. If the engineers at the cam company require 3 tries to get close to an old school cam then the odds of some guy picking the perfect cam out of a catalog are pretty low.

The book I got from Barry had a centerfold in it with Barry laying naked on a bear skin rug. I thought they all came that way, maybe I got a special deal?