Nice find, and lucky that it didn't fall through the carb and go into the engine.

If you don't have your accelerator pump discharge pipes aimed in a way that they spray onto the throttle shafts, consider doing so. Having them spray onto the shafts causes that solid (unburnable) squirt of fuel to hit the shaft and then be scattered nicely into the huge dump of air that is racing into the carb throat. You'll get much better throttle response, because you're creating a fuel/air mix that's easily lit. And if you haven't already done so, consider gapping the spark plugs out to .038". That wider spark, if the crane and your coil will fire the gap under load of compression and acceleration, will create a much better burn in the combustion chamber. Your seat-of-the-pants dyno will feel these improvement. You know when the spark plug gap is too wide, becuase it results in a little harder cold start. Narrow plug gaps are for customer satisfaction (really easy cold starting) and not for performance or fuel economy, especially with the 10-15% lower performance that ethanol based gasoline costs.

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