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Effect of heat on fuel delivery

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Effect of heat on fuel delivery
From: DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 12:38:10 -0700 (MST)
Compliments of the season, all.

This is a small but irksome issue:  For about 20 to 60 minutes
after parking the car when it's quite hot, restarting it is a
real beast of a job...seems like fuel starvation. 

Let it cool for more than an hour and it starts great... or don't
let it sit at all but restart it within a couple of minutes and
that works too.  But leave it for a middling amount of time 
when it's up to temperature and experience an embarrassing amount 
of cranking and pumping when you try to start it again.

Any ideas about what causes this?  Sitting and publicly cranking
for minutes on end only reinforces that stupid lay opinion about
the unreliability of british sports cars.

- dan parslow
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"The pasture of my life is dotted with cowpats from the devil's
 own satanic herd."   - Blackadder II


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