Thanks gents.

I guess I am a little concerned over how funky the oil looks just in a few hundred miles and the fact that the car sat for a really long period of time, although in-doors.

I swapped out injectors and I am running a set for a customer for analysis, and all the maintenance (general) is pretty much now done.

I have decent noise / vibration, but I attribute that to both motor mounts being shot. I hope to have the energy one of these evenings this week to swap them out. Got a pair of the left over Duralast "life timers" which Autozone no longer carries. I wish I could read the blasted raised lettering which was ground off. If they last 6 months, I will be happy.

I'm hoping that the oil, once changed - flushed again, will have the nice black yet run off quality where all the parts under the VC/CC are nice and shiney vs. black as night tarnish. And yes, the cam lobes, et cet which have metal-to-metal contact are nice and shiny. Not sure 100% that the VC/CC which just got a new gasket is not leaking a smidge at the rear ...