Yeah, I played the wine bar last last night, 60's country and blues band... had few n a half and was ham' n up some wording I had read here before from an overly passionate poster.
Everything has it's place and usage. A Thermoquad has taken a 71 demon down the track et 10.80-11. in the 1/4 in g stock.. so we know it can be done, but it's just like a hammer vs a crescent wrench...you can beat a nail into a 2x4 with a crescent wrench...but the hammer does it faster.
And honestly even the example I give of stock class racing, it's not an attribute to great mixing or metering by said carb...its the fact that those engines operate at rpms so high a coffee can full if gas with screwdriver holes punched into could deliver the fuel about as good. Low rpms operation, mileage and emissions, the spread bore was invented for such and still make a decent wot power ... but it will always be give or take and most people can't tuna fish.
I don't really fret over what someone prefers, I can work with either.
