This weekend I started the Weber carb rebuild. I had purchased the rebuild kit from Top End performance for $39. Also bought all new main, air and idle jets following a different tuning prescription than stock (the infamous CD 'O2 weber tuning recipe).

New Weber primary and secondary jets

Weber carb repair kit

Took apart the carb and soaked it for 48 hours in the red mystery oil, cleaned it all back up, and put in the new jets.

top half

bottom half showing throttle valves

all cleaned up and ready for its bits and pieces

Next up was redoing the idle and mixture settings. I followed the Redline Weber guidelines here:

http://www.redlineweber.com/html/Tech/carburetor_set_up_and_lean_best_.htm

low and behold it actually worked

The car idles smooth and strong, just like its supposed to. Even the automatic choke works

right now my chances of getting this beast to Sunday autox have improved slightly. Just have to rebleed the brakes, figure out why one of the low-beams drops out when the high beams are on, put the door panels back on, get the car registered and inspected... and if there's time, replace all the cooling hoses, so as one of them doesn't explode on the back sweeper at HPA