I'd guess the loose manifold bolts had opened up an air leak. Glad you got it fixed!

May have found another reason 

I swapped out the hypo jets I have been running with standard 60F9 

and the problem completely vanished 

upon cold start the engine felt smooth and ran very well.  She is back to her old self 

When I torn apart the hypo jet it was badly gunked up with varnish on the small tube that resides inside the jet housing 

I have them soaking in some carb cleaner now.  But that may have been an issue 

 

Why do your carbs have so much varnish in them? What fuel do you use?

It sat for 4 months while I worked on the roadster 

that's all I could figure 

Usually chevron 93 

so its weirdit's weird

Edited July 10, 20168 yr by Zedyone_kenobi

Strange... Good work finding the issue.

Thanks for sticking with me Leon!

8 hours ago, Zedyone_kenobi said:

Thanks for sticking with me Leon!

No problemo!