For those of you who are interested... here is the update.

I finally filled the engine with water and pumped up the pressure.

I found a small dribble of a leak at the threaded bypass hose nipple on the intake.

I fixed that and tried again.

I pumped it up to 17 lbs the second time, and lost 1.5 lbs of pressure over an hour.

I discovered a small drip from my new radiator (awesome), but my biggest concern is the beads of water forming along the head gasket.

This is happening on both sides, but more on the driver side. Here is the pictures.