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Moving on to the center section of the carb, I plugged the old bowl casting areas with JB weld and set that aside to cure.

I then started looking at the top plate, and found a fatal issue... a warp of ~1/16"! It looks like this carb is a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, with some sort of replacement bowl/center section. The number stamped on the carb on this piece indicated a replacement part (according to our local, awesome, carb shop, Nowlan's Carburetor, in Hillyard).

Try as I might, I couldn't get the warped top of the carb to mate with the middle/bowl section. even using a special "thick" gasket you could still see light between the pieces. No wonder it leaked!

Not wanting to delay the project for another 2 weeks I grabbed a musty Edelbrock 1406 I'd purchased at auction last year, ordered an adapter and a rebuild kit and put the Q-Jet aside.