On a 2T twin with reeds, if you have one carb, does it need to be bigger than stock or not? If you have two carbs, each one only fuels half the time, the rest of the time its idle.
Actually having a more continuous draw of air through one carb it may actually make the spray patterns coming out the jets better formed.
Lets face it, most old 4 cylinder cars had one carb.
Interesting topic.