Firing issue
Dead on! Went out and it fired right off! Im guessing it was vapor locked.
So now for the spacers, I know there are two different styles, one with a square bore and the other with the 4 holes. Whats the difference and what do you recommend?
Another suggestion I heard of way back was to install a small inline fuel pump. Im guessing to keep constant pressure on the mechanical fuel pump.. Im not sure sure I like that idea. Thoughts on that?
There are different kinds of materials also like Phenolic, wood, aluminum, fiber and even a few sandwich styles.
I have the Edelbrock fiber 5/8 thick and my car still does it.
It's not really a vapor lock as we know it, but more of an evaporation issue.
Eddies don't hold a lot of fuel, and my theory is that when you shut the car down it boils the lighter ethanol fuel so quickly that it pretty much empties the carb.
When it vaporizes the fuel, the vapor settles in the intake so when you go to start the car it sucks that vapor in and there ya go.
Now to add to that problem, we have an empty carb with causes a delay in the fuel delivery and then boils the first fuel that it does get making things worse.
I have an electric fuel pump only, from when I was chasing this problem down and it made virtually no difference, so I know that the problem is not all due to a mechanical pump or loosing a prime as some say.
I also know that it is physically impossible for the fuel to be "siphoned" back out of the carb since the float needle is above the fuel level in the carb.
Out of all the solutions talked about, the cooler fuel solutions seem to solve the problem (as in recirculating fuel systems) also called "return systems"
These pull new cooler fuel from the tank and circulate it back to the tank as long as they are on.
This delivers the cooler fuel to the carb every time the needle opens so it does not get a chance to get hot sitting in the fuel line.
Phenolic spacers and constantly circulating fuel seems to be the best solution "besides using a Holly instead of an Eddie." :D