1967 Dodge Dart 270

Been doing a lot of tuning work on the carb. Finally ditched the carter for a new edelbrock 1406. My fault really. I snapped off one of the screws when I was taking the throttle rod out. Forgot you need to grind the stakes out before you try to remove them. i got the screw replaced with one from the 2 barrel but didn't want to risk dropping one in the engine with the stakes ground off. I used blue locktite but still didn't want to risk it. It is car show season and I want her on the road. Trying to figure out the right combo of metering rods and jets to get her running efficiently. She's guzzling gas at the moment. Think I need to fiddle with my float adjustment too. I took it from 7/16" to 1/2" and will probably drop it another 16th tomorrow. I can watch the bowls fill up on the AFR gauge. about 14:1 till they fill, then it goes rich at about 11.5:1. I think the fuel level is flooding the idle circuit. No dribbles from the primaries but still pretty rich at idle. cruise is around 17:1 but kicks in too late, and part throttle acceleration is around 12.5:1. WOT is 10:1 so gonna put smaller jets in the secondaries as well. hope to get to that tomorrow before my 3rd car show of the year. I was a bit apprehensive about the first one on July 3rd. All the show cars there, then my beater. Lol. I had nothing to worry about though. She drew tons of attention and was the center of many conversations. The only 67 Dart there. There was a 63 Dart convertible and a 66 valiant there as well but that's it for A bodies.