Thanks guys, heat off the extractors sounds like it could be it, but the other day my car sat in the sun for 4 hours while i was at work, and then it wouldn't start even after all that time! Could the heat from the car being in the sun evaporate the petrol too?? If so then a heat shield sounds like a good idea. What should i make it out of? thickness? where should i mount it to? How big does it need to be? Any help appreciated! Thanks, Mark.
--- Robert Charles Scealy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I had a similar problem with my twin SUs a few weeks ago, and it was the >heat of the extractors boiling the fuel out of the carbies. Then when >they are empty, it heats them up enough that any new fuel pumped into >the carbies boils immediately, until enough enough fuel pumps in and >cools them down. A heat shield fixed it. > >On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Mark Firman wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Lately when i have been driving for a while and then go to start the car up again >when it's warm it doesn't want to kick (say 50% of the time). It will fire once or >twice and then just die! It will just keep doing this until i floor it for about 5 >non starts, or sometimes it just decides to start after the second or third. >> I suspect it might be the fuel in the carby evaporating due to the heat in the >engine bay or something (happens on hot days)??? Could this be the cause?? >> My car really seems to lack quite a lot of power since when i had it tuned about 2 >months ago (and it hasn't even seen a lot of driving since) - It revs fine, but just >doesn't make the power it used to :( any suggestions as to why? Could this be related >to my starting problem? >> >> Thanks and sorry for rambling on but any ideas would be great! >> Mark >> p.s. its a L20B with a single 45mm weber and a mild cam. >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> Get Your free Ozdat Email Account >> ---> http://www.ozdat.com >> >> _____________________________________________________________ >> Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, >6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag >> >> > > _____________________________________________________________ Get Your free Ozdat Email Account ---> http://www.ozdat.com _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@;datascribe.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
