Bikeman - I believe you will find that the use of the gasket material you have chosen will simply accelerate the rate of warpage. At least this is what we found when we tried that type of gasketing years ago.
Denny - the secret with the castings, is to only remove 0.003 warpage per heating. We restored quite a few of these that would last several years until the warpage was back. However, trying to remove .025 or so at one time resulted in other casting deformation, and the warpage came back much sooner.
And I would agree with you that the circuitry is not that bad (it is no better than the Carter W-1, and inferior to the Carter WA-1 and YF, but better than the Holley). But unless one is building an absolute numbers matching show car the end result (at least to me) does not justify the means. For the same money one spends to properly redo the B, one can have a "bullet-proof" Stromberg or Zenith; AND take the wife out to an expensive restaurant SEVERAL times.
Jon.
