69 gts restoration

Thanks for all the comments I do appreciate it.

Well the saga continues a little bit here. I have a small problem with the carb. The carb is "perculating" or rather fuel is boiling in the bowls. I put a phenolic spacer 5/16" on and it didn't solve the problem. Now I need to take the intake off and block the heat cross over in the intake. I hate to do it but from what I have been reading this is really the only solution. I am also going to try and put heat shield tape on the fuel lines near the exhaust as well to see if that will help.

Basically the problem is only when stopped. If I drive the car for a little while and get it up to temperature then turn it off for 5min or so it has a hard time starting. Sounds like vapor lock. There is no problem at stops or at idle and the car responds fine this only happens when I turn the car off and try to restart. I can't leave it that way because all I am doing it washing the cylinder walls down with fuel (very bad for the rings..) Wondering if anyone else has run into this problem.

Stock intake with an Edelbrock 650 on it. everything else is bone stock so the only thing I can think of to stop it is what I mentioned above.

Any thoughts?

The Edelbrock insulator gaskets works really well:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/EDL-9266/

Yes I would block the cross over ports. You don't need them. The modern fuels don't have the anti boil over additive any longer so fuel percolation is a problem. This is a common problem especially with Edelbrock and Carter carbs. Holleys with their fuel bowls up and away from the manifolds don't percolate as much.