I looked down at the remaining cam bearings, they all look great and appear to have not moved.
so...
Camshaft has been installed,
Timing gears and chain installed.
Realized i got a little too motivated for the camshaft install, I wanted to clean the top of the block to perfection first... oh well.
Lots of blue paper towels to plug things...
Took the oil pump and did some light touchup and blending of the ridges to improve flow...
I didn't go crazy due to not wanting to f with too much of the anodized finish... but it's an improvement for sure.
Mocked up the oil pump, about to re-watch a youtube vid on how to check the pump clearances...
My pump for reference is the Melling 10296 (used the Melling website to pull the PN).
Comes with 3 springs
Red is installed
Blue is included
And some Copo Camaro spring
Pumps:
https://www.melling.com/product/gm-aluminum-oil-pumps-select-performance/
So the installed red spring says it's +10psi
Included blue "stock" spring says a reduction of 8-10 psi
"Copo Camaro" spring included says "+25psi over the enclosed blue spring"
Thinking I'm going to rock the red spring....
(Regulator has been pulled due to the pump cleanup, so now is the time for me to make the final decision)
Someone mentioned a possible need to put a resistor on the oil pressure gauge sensor?