Thread: car keeps dying...drives me nuts!

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When the carb runs dry, the float drops, and allows the vapour to escape. It's the vapour that you smell. A little bit of gasoline makes a lot of vapour when its heated.

Okay, now I'm confused (well, more than usual). Another guy told me to absolutely not wrap the headers, as that will put more heat through the engine and make my problem worse. He says that my problem, due to a radical cam, is boiling of the gas directly inside of the carburetor.

for the earlier question: my Dad says that I'm getting both gas and spark

A small carb spacer may help as the aluminum intakes seem to get as hot as a exaust manifold when in use {seems that hot anyway }and more so upon shut down,the whole thermal conductivity thing.You will be able to grab the exaust manifold with your bare hand long before you can even touch the aluminum intake.

it has a pretty big spacer in there already actually

What material?

it looks to be aluminum I think