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On 16 Jul 99, at 11:48, Patrick J. Morton wrote: > At 22:04 -0600 14.07.1999, Jim Adney wrote: > > >> The engine is a basically stock 1584cc mill, with 34mm FRD carbs, Facet > >> electronic fuel pump, CR is 9.5:1, 009 distributor, Crane XR-700 optically > >> triggered points box and I use only 99 octane leaded fuel ($4.75 a gallon). > > >You don't say how long this problem takes to go away. Does it? > > The problem does eventually go away - after I have been driving for another > 5 minutes or so, or if the car has been sitting for an hour. Could be vapour lock. > >Is there any chance that your Facet pump is located near the engine > >where it can get warm and boil off the gas and get vapor lock? It > >really "belongs" in front under the gas tank. AND I hope you have > >some kind of safety interlock on it. > > It is mounted next to the transmission, onto a bracket that I welded onto > the left-side fork that holds the transmission. It should get some air > there, but it is close to the road. I passed a road temperature gauge the > other day that read 47¡C, so maybe the heat coming up off the asphalt is > causing the vapor lock. > > Perhaps I should re-locate the pump. > I really could not find a place under the gas tank to mount the pump - the > one on my Beetle mounted nicely up there. You should ba able to make a bracket that attaches to the front axle beam. > I do not have any safety interlock, nor regulator. I do have a fire > extinguisher though ... The only time the safety interlock is important is when you are knocked out. The fire extinguisher is irrelevant at that point. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* -----------ð6lï------------------------------------------------ Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe