Hey, hudson, glad to see you're back!
I'm still tinkering with my '49 Coupe.
Got the carbs more-or-less sorted. The cheap rebuild kits I got seemed to work ok. I ended up locking the dashpots down completely, and after discovering that the setscrews holding my linkage together were not really holding, managed to get everything running pretty well. Still a little rich on idle, and the accellerator pump linkage seems to want another hole for the rod to go into. I have it set to the full stroke, and I still get a little hesitation if I floor it from low revs.
My current project is swapping a set of fluid drive 1949 gears into a 1956 overdrive gearbox so I can put it in place of the three speed I have now. According to all the research I've done, it should work, and I can't wait for that overdrive ratio!
I'm thinking about getting another engine and rebuilding it from the ground up with the crankshaft oilway mods that you had listed here in the past. I'd love to have an engine that runs like the one in your tractor pull rig!
