RE: Needle valve to Carb fuel line arch...
I made a further search and found this Hydraulic theorem:
At any node in a system containing incompressible fluid, the total volumetric or mass flows in must equal the flows out, less the change in storage.
Since there is no change in storage (the line stays the same size) what flows in must flow out. No more/no less.
GIGO, or in this case: fuel in=fuel out