Well I went to my mom's today to tinker with the car and fiddled with the distributor, disconnected the vacuum advance and got it pretty close to two lines above tdc. It was a little too hot outside to dig out the stuff piled around it to take it for a spin today.
Probably going to look at checking all the valve lash one more time as it still has a little bit of a ticking when it idles. I don't know how much is normal on a new engine build.
https://youtu.be/MFeabFPtZ9w