Rich Kinsley '64 Dodge Polara 4dr 318poly w/goodies OK- tonight I was looking at my 500cfm Eddy's and I decided the choke plate should be removed on my dual-quads. Shaft and all. I do not use the choke and I can see they interfere with airflow probably. I will squirt a tad of RTV in the shaft openings after I remove them. It can be cleaned out later if I want to replace them. Does anyone have any problem with this? Also I have a template of sorts from Edelbrock that shows me how to drill the vacuum advance weights to get them opening sooner and fuller. I will do this also. I want to block the middle passage heat crossover too in the manifold. (This is a 318 poly +.040".) How do I do this in the most unobtrusive way? In case I want to reverse this in the future. I could JB weld the manifold but that's a pretty rare piece of metal to modify permanently like that. Is there a gasket that has the passage blocked AND is available? (Don't say E-Bay. I don't do that.) Feel free to chime in Gary P. I will be getting on the wood riser pretty soon and I'm having difficulty finding the coating. I can only get garage floor paint in 2gal sizes. The paint stores are advising me that they don't know how well it will adhere to wood either. I don't want something brittle that will break off in the venturi and send little pieces of paint into the engine. That worries me. Maybe Eastwood has a product that would work? OK- Send me some ideas, comments. ---- Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html.