True story, you can come to your own conclusions.
When Joe Gilbert decided to replace the TT36 with a Saito 40 on the now famous Yellow T-6, he bought a CL version of the Saito 40. Him and I played with that engine for a full season trying to get it to run consistently. We tried everything we could think of, he swapped out the metal tank for a plastic clunk tank, I threaded the intake for a choke screw and opened up the feed hole in the spray bar. We played with props, fuel and choke settings till we were both about discusted with the whole idea.
One day he had it out and it was doing it's normal you-never-knew-how-it-was-going-to-run thing.. I said "Joe that's it, were done fighting it.. pull that intake off and give it to me". I went to my shop, pulled the CL spray bar and barrel out of the carb body. Made a new barrel with a spigot needle and nylon screw like I have in all of my Saitos. Next time he came out we put the new intake on and adjusted it for the lap times the T-6 and Joe liked.
Since that day the T-6 has never been beat in Profile Expert including a First place at Brodak's.