sweet.. can't wait to get the engine going. I completely disassembled it and began removing the excess metal around the flywheel, cutting the cooling fins down, machined the intake manifold to the same size as the carb and removed the round tabs that dont let it completely flow.

Prior to disassembling the blower, I put about 12 tanks of fuel thru the motor. It looks great, completely clean and no carbon anywhere. Just a slight black oily coating in the exhaust port. I am running Mobil-1 MX2T synthetic. I am impressed by the quality of the motor. It appears to be very well built and the carb was perfectly tuned from the factory.