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I hate to mess with the stock mounting locations too much, trying to keep it as stock appearing as possible.






There is nothing even remotely STOCK APPEARING about the linkage between the 2 carbs. You can buy linkage that will work correctly and look a lot more stock appearing even with those carbs.

On the smaller carbs , the throttle response would be a little more crisp , but not sure how crisp with them opening together on that manifold ?