I had one one my boat for a while. I will say it had the best throttle response of any carb I've ever had on it, almost violent. +1 for the cool factor also. My setup idled about 900, but I have a smallblock and it's nowhere near your power level. Downside, hard to get parts for, not that it has a lot inside, but the bowl gaskets aren't easy to come by. Uses lots of gas. Take a look down the throat when you get yours running and you'll see what I mean. Kind of tempermental also, sometimes it would fire right up, other times, not so much, and sitting in the middle of the lake trying to get it started is not what I want. It never failed to start, but when your retrieving a skier and floating downriver I want to know that it's going to fire up the minute I hit the key in case I need to get out of the way of something. It's a simple carb, it was not hard to tune. I loved the throttle response, just not enough to keep using it. I tried it on my Mustang, and it wouldn't run worth a s***. I think it works better with an open exhaust. That's my experience.
