Y-TRY - It feels like the motor is starving for fuel and dies and then wont start back up. Whats happening is the fuel is so hot that its actually boiling inside the carb.

Scott, where would i drill this hole in the gas cap to vent it?

Anywhere so it can equalize pressure. All you're doing is allowing air to enter the tank.

I would either drill a small hole or order another cap from Rick's or whoever you prefer doing business with. With a phenolic spacer I don't see how the fuel is getting so hot as to perculate in the carb. I have the Holley thick gasket, and some thermo-wrap in the engine compartment , nothing exeotic, where my fuel line is within 1" of my uncoated headers and never see this. The cap sounds suspect obviously since you're seeing/hearing pressure build-up.

I have a vented cap, but i think its faulty because i hear the unmistakable sound of vacuum sucking when i take the cap off.

Me and you def have the same problem...I am just gonna get a new cap and see. My cap is pretty new now and is just not working. I will spend the 15 bucks and see if the new cap works...if it doesnt I will send it back and drill a hole in the old one.
Just concerned for some long drives I have planned soon.

Tim

The reason for your problem is probably after the long drive the fuelpump have sucked fuel out of the tank but no air as entered to fill the space the gas had. After a certain volume the underpressure in the tank is so low that the fule pump can't pump any more. Remember that a pump can only suck maximum about 30 feet of a liquidpillar.

When you drive a short distance you will not produce the same amount of vacuum to reach the level where the pump can't pump anymore.

So the rule of thumb is "the volume that is pumped away must be replaced with air." That's the reason for the venthole in the cap.

So if I can correct you, the problem is not Vapor Lock.

Vapor Lock is the opposite where hot gas vaporize inside the carburators fuelbowls and create an overpressure that prevents fuel from entering the carb or in other cases overflow the bowl.

Heat in all forms is bad for gasoline (Except inside the cylinder). I had vapor lock problems and solved it by blocking the heatrunners under the carb. You know the channels that lets exhaustgas run under the carb.


Another thing is the bad quality of gasoline nowadays. When our musclecars were constructed the gasoline was of a much better quality and heatproblems was not that common.

We still have 98 octane gasoline over here but twenty years ago we had 100 that was more up to it and held for high compression.

Those were the days...


Jan

Jannes, i wrote during one of my early posts on this thread that the fuel was boiling inside my carb... i about plotzed!!