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Well its been a bit of time, I was waiting on parts and then I had another issue. This time I am sure it was mechanic induced. I got it all reassembled and started it up and it was rattling and did not stop. Shut it off fairly quickly so it did not run long with the rattling. I turned it over by hand and it seemed that something was wrong, it was hard to turn over. Funny thing is though that I had turned it over several times to check the timing and i did not notice any issue with rotating the assembly. In fact I did at least four revolutions of the crank and double checked the cam timing with the crank. All was good. So not sure what happened but somehow the pistons were hitting the cylinders.
I will add some photos of the cylinders after this time, it definitely left a mark this time. So checked the leak down of the affected cylinders and to my surprise, no change. Somehow I dodged another bullet. I pulled the cam chain and realigned it. Then I turned the engine over several times, this time I put my borescope in the cylinders and watched them come to top dead center and made sure that the valve was opening just after like its supposed to. It was definitely aligned correctly this time. I can only guess that i accidently allowed the chain to jump a tooth upon assembly somehow. Got in a hurry and did not turn it over to test it like I should have. Its easy to do with your own projects sometime especially when you just want to get it back together and get it running again.

Here is my video of the not so nice noise of the valves hitting the pistons:
https://youtu.be/Pnh0cfvmXEs?si=Z_uq20GcPR4BZ2-E

Here are the cylinders in question: