Sounds to me like you have nice issues to work on. Should be fairly affordable to bring her up to speed. I echo the advice above.

Clean out the banjo bolt at the back of the manifold. Easy, fast and generally gives instant pop to takeoff. It is a hollow bolt which slides through the banjo bolt. Might as well break the hard plastic and splice with nice rubber line after all the crud is removed.

Valves should be adjusted as well. After those two issues are done, you might look at adjusting the ALDA if you need more get up and go.

Don

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