Kendall
Are you talking of Dick LaHaie who was crew chief on Larry Dixon's Miller TFD?
I know of your friend since I met ALL Stock, Super Stock, Pro Stock, Pro Stock Motorcycle, Pro-Mod, Comp Elimination and Alcohol drivers/crew chiefs at fuel check. If they wanted a pay check, they had to pass my lab tests. Even Force and Schumacher were subjected to my tests.
Dennis:
You mentioned using methanol in one of your cubs. DO NOT BUY it from a station that pumps from a large tank. It wil be NO good. Only buy in a sealed drum or 5 gal can and keep sealed and in a cool place. Methanol absorbs water if exposed to the atmosphere. Will quickly loose its specific gravity and its associated power. Methanol in a cub carb will require different jetting as it takes more methanol to produce the same results as gasoline. Check with Don Vogt for specifics. He is the expert.
20% Nitro w/alcohol will give some added hp but you are getting in the area where you need to advance the timing to get proper flame travel and ignition. The lead on a fuel engine is well over 50 degrees before top dead center. That means that the piston is less than 1/2 way up the cylinder when the charge is lit. Nitro is the slowest burning of Gasoline, Methanol and Nitro. Would take the points on the plate at end of cam to make this useful so you can advance the timing on you cub as needed. Could tell you a story about local fire marshal having a fit with a delivery of a drum of 98% nitro to my house in 1975.
Finally...need to check spark plug for continuity. We used to call it buzzing a plug. Many plugs have a tiny internal gap. They will not work as well as ones that have the electrodes touching inside of the insulator. Use a lantern battery and door buzzer. If the buzzer sounds when the leads are connected to the two ends of the plug then you have a good plug. Second you need to index it.
Did not get the yellow 782. Sold before I got to it...Looked pretty nice.
Randy shoot me another e-mail..I accidentally deleted your e-mail when I went to reply. Old fingers don't work so well.