What carbs do you have? It is not to hard to clean up the idle circuit . And cheaper too.

Single Holley 850....

You getting some advice regardless. Back to your original question and moving forward I wouldn't hesitate to strap a hp 950 on top of a Vic jr or dart and go enjoy your boat. I know what your talking about and been down that road. I'm assuming your 1050 is 3 circuit. Those carbs were originally designed for pretty much one thing and it was drag racing. Allowing to translock and not lean out. If you call pro systems and had them build you a carb for your app I'd almost bet on them going 4150. Not a 100% on 502 but they do on 454/177.

1050 dom obviously works also but just saying... Call and ask them. Two minute call. Also if you know who ground the cam and have the cam card just call them to make sure your valve timing etc is acceptable running at 9:1 static. I'm pretty sure you'll be safe but call. It's all about you and enjoying your boat with the way you run it. Many on here have completely different boating characteristics myself included. I have very little idle time and run relatively hard.

Again to be certain call who ground the cam or spec'd it. It doesn't sound like a shelf cam.

At the risk of derailing the thread, I'll give you one guess who spec'd the cam. I have the Cam card down in the garage.

I am laughing harped at your "cross threading is better than locatite".

If I wanted to shelve the blowers for a couple years which intake would you guys recommend? Just trying to do some research....

IMO, carb is too small for a SC'd 502, but the 177's are too small also.
Probably jetted the carb rich to compensate being on the small side.

If you go NA, the carb should work fine for that. I would prob go with a Dart intake manifold.

Have a look at the RPM Airgap manifold. In my googling they've been consistently better for the power range that you live in. For folks that spend a lot of time wide open the single planes are great.