backfire through the carb.

siuauto said
I know I don't need the octain but I was taking it to a cruise night and many of us use it for the great smell. I know that it burns slower but I didn't think it would couse any issues. I don't think I will make that mistake again. It has been a day now and I am going to go out and start it again to see what happens. If it was water in the cap that should be dry.

Can someone tell me the symptoms of a warn cam lobe. The reason I was thinking that is I just learned all about the zink phosphate but have been only using regular oil. I am just worried I ruined the cam. It has only been in there a few hundred miles/

Gotcha on the smell. Can't you just add the smell to regular gas though? I think Jegs and Summit sells cans of it. Alot of speed shops sell it too. Just running high octane won't cause an engine to backfire or do any damage. It just lowers the perf. on a low comp. engine. Actually the dist. cap may not dry out if water got in it unless it's a vented type. Even then it may take several days to dry out. You probably need to take it off and dry it out with clean paper towels. Like Dano said if you lost a cam lobe it'd also have a loud tapping sound. Hope that's not the case. What oil have you been running?