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A Performer intake with a Performer 500 will give you maximum street driveability...and shed a lot of cast iron weight from the motor. I've always been a fan of manual chokes because I want control. If I want the choke on a little to richen up the mixture to compensate for a bad load of gas to prevent pinging, I can do it with a manual. Manual choke carb is also cheaper.

Jets and metering rods are available separately as you mentioned, but I've relied on "strip kits" in the past. I don't know if you can still buy them, but the Carter strip kit parts will work in the Edelbrock AFB clone. Here's an example of a kit (for a Thermoquad though) on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...sPageName=WDVW

EGR is exhaust gas recirculation. It is used to recycle burned exhaust gases back into the motor to reduce the heat of combustion to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. If you don't have to pass emissions in you locality, get the non-egr setup.