Wow - I'll try to answear your questions:
-I am not going to race a cold engine. Working on this to get the most out of my gear (it's part of our hobby, right?)
-Engine and carb has been in the car for 10 years but not ran much and has always been like this. No vacuum leaks as far as I can see. I run gaskets on both sides of the valley pan, changed out a bad pcv valve last year. It's a 68 Charger so I always check the vacuum lines out of the carb.
-Don't know what head gaskets were used
-The build is at least 10 years old but hasn't been driven more than 200-400 miles pr year.
-Torker 2 is a singel plane with no heating.
-I do not have easy access to another carb.