2 Barrel 225 V6 Carb Options?

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The carb has been rebuilt mine twice the second time after having it hot tanked and all the passages cleared and it still runs super rich.
The car had sat over 6 years before being brought back to life by the guy I bought it from.
May have to look for another core to rebuild or some other carb option perhaps?
 
What measure are you using to assess it as running super rich, or why do you believe it to be running super rich?
 
Took the car on a 35 mile round trip and pulled the pugs and they were grey but the car surges a bit at steady thottle at highway speeds.
 
Hopefully someone with some better ideas than me will chime in, but I would question the wet spot on the driveway, because gas vaporizes very quickly, so there would have to be a bad leak on a fuel line to cause that.
I would rather you described the tail pipe odor as rich than raw, because gas is not going to get out a tail pipe smelling like gas.
My experience has been that 95% of carburetor problems are found in the ignition system. Usually mechanical and or vacuum advances not working properly. Take a timing light, unplug your vacuum advance and make sure the mechanical advance is working, then make sure the vacuum advance is working. You can do that with a vacuum pump or by connecting the vacuum advance to a vacuum port, then disconnecting it.
The surging sounds like an indicator, but I am not sure where to point you, maybe someone else has an idea.
 
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