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The hood does look good, it was worth the effort for sure.

A heads up on the sniper throttle, after power tour this year mine picked up the habit of not returning the throttle blade to fully closed. It would stay 2-6% open after I left off the pedal. For a while I could just tap the pedal and it would drop back to 0%. It progressively got worse the more I drove it. I cleaned the bores, throttle blades and lubed the shafts and that helped a little. In the end it took adding an additional light return spring to get it to return to 0% all the time. It didn't effect the throttle pedal feel at all. I haven't got to drive it as much as usual this fall though because it's been down since September with suspension damage.

Sorry for the novel just though it might save you a few steps if you run into the same issue.