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Old 09-03-2017, 07:22 AM
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The phenolic spacer is probably the best you can do but I just used the thicker composite that would fit an 85 ford truck with a 460 between the aluminum spacer and the carb. They hot soak problem was much better for starting though I still have to give it throttle for about 10 seconds on a hot start to stabilize (I'm still running the original Autolite carb). Fuel bowl contents evaporate rapidly but what makes it worse is that gas will foam when shot into the hot carb. You have to live it to some extend as gas is formulated to operate better under pressure for fuel injection. Today's fuel isn't even close to what it was compared to when our cars will built. If your cooling system is efficient running a 180 degree stat instead of the 192 also helps a little bit.
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