Yeah you've certainly cluttered up the once clean lines of the engine and bike with a cornucopia of fuel tubing, couplers, hose clamps, more tubing, cables and more hardware...
Keeping your local hardware store in business eh?
So you've gotten better performance and responsiveness than what you had with the old tank mounted Vacu-Jet carburetor? It IS a vacu-jet right? It gives me great joy that it's just a little, old Briggs.
I'm way late to the party but this is a great build thread--love the ingenuity. That melted aluminum exhaust is unreal.