I pretty well have everything back on my engine, including the old stock carb.
Sitting there staring at the engine I realized I hate that old carb. Everything else is painted or new-except for that old grubby carb.
It had to go.
I read somewhere that you can take a stock carb and intake manifold off a type 1 air cooled engine without taking off the shroud or generator.
Not true. The heat risers are in the way.
Damn. 
I've already had to take the shroud out three times for various reasons and I didn't want to take it out again.
So I put a cutting wheel on my portable grinder and cut off one of the heat risers, which allowed me to easily remove the intake manifold.
There's no going back now. 
For a carb replacement I had three options:
1. A rebuilt stock German carb (except I'd need a new manifold)
2. A set of dual single throat carbs
3. A set of dual 40 Webers
After emailing John, a Aircooled.net, my three choices and engine particulars he recommended going with the 40 Webers, since there is a good chance I'll upgrade the engine somewhere down the road.
I plan on buying the Webers from John, because he can set them up to run properly on my stock engine.
