The flow visually does look nice on the outside and also as you said inside the air does not hit the corner.
Please don't rib me for sort of nit picking. I’m just making an observation.
Since the change of the flywheel cover/shrowd is not as the original, the governor would have the air- vane affected. The air-vane you can do away with just as I did along with the governor springs and linkages, because your girl friend will be in control of the idle.
***(yea I know working out the governor with the intake above a foot away, you might as well negate the governor)***
My intake on the Briggs makes a right hand turn and rotates to tilt forward the carb about 30 degrees to have the bowl level. I dispensed with the idea of some fangled way of still having a governor. I actually was contemplating an electronic/electro-mechanical way of making the linkages for a governor with this situation. It would have used two variable resistors with one at the air-vane and one at the butterfly throttle, along with two servo motors, and a circuit to board to make it work. Nuts, yea I’m that!
For what Msrfan said about the flywheel cover assembly, I was wondering if off clockwise from up at Noon to 2pm, the dot I think I can see in the pic I took of the Brigg’s Flywheel cover on my engine.
Note: The picture has up on the cover at a 45 degree angle to the left.
Note:
I did re-wrap the spring and was not observant of this. I hope that it is not that bad to cause any problem. I don’t think I’ve yet noticed anything. I did use plenty of lube on the spring and it works nice.
Though I did have a problem I had for a while was this. The mounts on the flywheel cover to the engine casting had to change, since I had to modify the way it was done when stuck/rotted out metal of the casting caused me to change it. It was the centering so that it would not scrape and shoot out sparks. Finally I got it centered OK.
Also as Msrfan mentioned lube at the other picture part on the flywheel end of the crank shaft. This is the part with the ball bearings inside, that helped immensely. I used 3 in 1 oil on it. This I think is a part with one of the shaved corners (picture pointer in blue)of the square, that should line up with the dot on the other part? It is not straight up, but at 2pm.
The spring I had too thick grease making recoil stubborn, so I cut its viscosity with some 3 in 1 oil and got the coil spring to act right.
From the nice looks on the cover welds Harry, I am thinking I may try to see with another extra cover I may Dremel away the recoil from the shroud and get the pull start where I want it welding it back 90 degrees clockwise. I’ll practice MIG for a while before I do this though. You were down at what the minimum your machine puts out?
Measure Twice