I got back out to the car today and got the choke wired up (shoulda left it shut to fatten the thing up!). I brought that damn 1/4-1/8 NPT reducer and plopped it in back by the bellhousing, tossed a couple more chopped off wires that went nowhere, and rerouted the oil pressure sensor harness so that, the choke, and coolant temp all shared a common path. Then I got under the car and pulled the 2 oil cooler line plugs to reseal those. They were slathered in orange silicone of course. One wasn't even tight, hopefully that's the extent of the slight oil leak down there. I wiped down the pan to help me trace it in the future if I didn't get it this time. Greased a couple joints I'd missed, this car has a lot with all the aftermarket arms but there were 3 I simply could not reach. Gonna hafta look and see what adapters I can get for the gun. I also put a gas cap on, not much in the way of work but still good to have one. Put the car down, torqued the wheels, aired up the tires for the first time since 2019, torqued the upper control arms as those look to have rubber bushings on the axle side, and fired it up. Of course the bowl was empty from sitting but the car rolled over plenty fast to fill it back up and get fired. Soooo much better with a good ground connection to the block and chassis and a fully charged, somewhat desulfated battery. Daylight was fleeting at this point as the sun had just dipped behind the mountains so I hit the road and my friend followed me. Mind you, I would have overwhelmingly preferred a test drive, leak check, top off trans fluid, etc but we just went straight for the hangar. The car lean popped quite a bit, this was substantially farther than I've gone since bringing the car here in 2019, but since it was such a death trap I never felt it prudent to try anything close to this, good thing I didn't after what all I found with it on the lift. The drive was otherwise uneventful. The car has a hard pull to the left and both sides show positive camber. Yuck. I'll deal with that later. The ride was the real mind blower: it was firm, not boaty at all. I figured those KYBs were their bottom feeder shocks but they're not bad. Shockingly the rears weren't blown out either, bonus they're air shocks! I pumped them up and they held, not sure for how long, but that was worth a chuckle. Brakes are still a bit spongy but for a 40-50 mph 8 mile hike with almost no traffic it was good enough. It's tucked back into the hangar now but I tracked in some mud from in front of it. We've gotten more snow than usual out that way and it's been sticking longer than usual too. Time to reformulate and re-rack and stack the to do list for this thing. First and foremost is gonna be revised main jetting, I may just go right back to the 75 it had and start there. These needles must be lean AF and really neuter that big of a main. I jetted down 20% in area taking into account the size of that needle and it's just lean lean lean, even got a nice big fireball out of the cowl on one greedy stab of the gas trying to get moving. Plenty of pops out of the dumps too, would have to lift and roll back into it. Putt putting around off an idle it's still super snappy though. I think I left the throttle plates closed enough so the transfer slots can do their thing, just need to play with it some more.