The fuel delivery system was shot. I replaced the tank, sending unit, and fuel pump. I’m using a Carter fuel pump from O’Reilly’s. It works just fine. I originally wanted to keep the car as stock as possible, but the HS4’s were annoying. I tried to rebuild them, but they still didn’t work very well. I was looking for a downdraft carb solution. A guy on ebay was selling a manufacturers rebuilt carb for a Vega that was a Holley 5200 series that is also a copy of the Weber DGV. When it arrived, the number of vacuum ports confounded me so I left it alone and bought a very used Weber DGAV with a manifold. I cleaned it up real good by sandblasting the intake manifold and giving the carb a good soaking and a rebuild kit. I got everything back together and cranked her up. I was just happy to here it run. The Weber was sticking and I noticed the 36 side of the carb never opened up. The car ran rough but I attribute that to the built up carbon and junk in the engine. The smoke eventually went away but the car was still a bit rough. I took the Weber back off and reamed out the butterfly rod openings and spun the rods on some fine sand paper. All the butterflies now worked smoothly. Now the problem was the float level. I just couldn’t get it right. First it would flood then after adjustment, it would starve. I decided to cut my frustration and buy a new DGV. Thank God! I installed it and all was right in the world. I just had to adjust the idle and that was it. I spent some time fabricating the throttle cable setup. I ended up getting a fancy setup from Pep Boys with chrome and steel braided throttle cable. It looks and works well. I used the original choke cable.