So... If I had known then what I know now I would have left it alone and kept going.
Spud, I had read and used your instructions way back when I built the unit--long time back--when I first fired it up--I fattened the idle and away I went--everything AOK to me and it Ran Great!! Then in the pits folks smarter than me noticed my banks were at different temps--hey you have to fix that--well..
I got so far out in the field I could not see the porch light.
OK went back to your instructions--started from scratch --now I am back to about where I was--I have a better understanding of it all as I have been all over it for a week now. I was being faked out by one cool front tube--took that nozzle out--blew through it and that cylinder cam back to life--had another way hotter and I fussed over that blade until I finally relized the butterfly itself was in need of special attention--I took that one blade out--cleaned a bur off the edge--pounded it flater than it was and that cylinder is better but the blade still has less drag on the feeler gauge no matter what I do to it and that header pipe is always hotter than the others
So..after a couple of jugs of alky she is back and doing OK
It still pops just a little out the pipes at idle--still need to rich it up a little you think??
Or open blades a fraction more then go back to mixture??? I mean--it sounds better with more blade opening but then idles too high--I am at about .002 on blades give or take-- Throttle response is amazing--not too warm too fast but overall I just get the feeling it is a little lean at idle---I started with BV leaked at 25% and turned it a couple of flats to rich after start up.
Whew!!!
Driving it is way easier than this