Thanks for the encouraging words. I really couldn't have done it without the help of RRE and the drive from the community.
The oil situation was mainly made due to cost and still wanting to be married, as a Magnus dry sump can set you back any easy $5k... But is definitely an option as Magnus and Norton make it readily available.
Lod from RRE made a trick oil priming thingamajig which made priming the motor super easy. Really a simply solution to a tedious job...
The ceramic coating -vs- wrap is such a subjective subject. And it's really hard for me to give an answer as I'm no metallurgy specialist. So I'll leave it at that.
Full-Race did say a coating would be beneficial, along with Art and Lod of RRE/S-empire so I did. When searching around I found a local shop that does the ceramic coating using Cerakote. Which is used heavily in firearms and of course in header/manifold coatings. Looking over reviews of this stuff looks like I found a winner, but we'll really see after some track use...
-Matt