Degreeing the cam will allow you to know exactly where the cam is. One problem down, (at least going in the right direction) hopefully it solved a couple other problems as well. And please do degree it even though you have good cranking compression.
Well done!
Allen
Here's a novel idea, let's not throw a bunch of parts at the car hoping it will fix the problem and instead spend a little time diagnosing it first.
Life was a little easier when I was just a wrench.