UPDATE:
When I had the valve cover off right before the tear down, I didn't see hardly any oil shooting up anywhere around my rocker arms. I noticed that my low oil light was indeed coming on intermittently before tear down, and it wasn't low.
Would this be my oil pump or blockage? I had the motor flushed on the last oil change and I do change my oil very religiously. Is there a way I can test this oil pump? I have yet to take the oil pan off and look around I'm hoping somebody like wis has done this before. Any good ideas on how to check out my crankcase for blockage and oil circulation problems? The motor isn't knocking and there is no play in the crank pulley.
Thanks again.
On the top end I have all the holes tapped out now and I'm cleaning and painting my valve covers and exhaust manifold as we speak. I use aluminum acid on the heads to clean and shine up the aluminum.. intake too. I'll have plenty of pictures to post on job completion.
I did take a short video of me surfacing one of these heads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGhkB_eJpOg