Well I looked into some basics of burner design (intake opening relative to burner throat, gas orifice position, etc.) and decided I would make some modifications to the burners and see what happened (can always make T-burner if it goes to crap). I made the air intakes bigger, drilled out the old orifice and tapped a TWECO 0.035 tip and positioned it about halfway in the intakes. Definitely made a huge difference in combustion gas flow, noise, and i presume heat output. I am just trying to tune them now. I am temporarily using a loose copper sleeve as a choke. I took some pics of the flame, looks like it is running on the oxidizing side? If all else fails I feel I am learning a lot playing with something that as flaws and figuring out what they are vs. following someone's instructions (the effort of which is still greatly appreciated).
http://imgur.com/a/7ckAW