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Finn covered a lot of it in his post, the vaporization in the carb cools
it. This is also the cause of carburator ICING. Many carburated engines will
boil the fuel in the float bowl as soon as you shut off the engine. Hard
starting when hot is a common problem. Straight up vapor lock can happen in
carburated engines when running and it isn't pretty. On of the problems with
some of the types of oxygenated mogas is a return to vaporlock problems on some
engines. The politicians don't want you to know that the change to oxygenated
fuel has caused a rash of carb fires in high-output situations. Look at the side
of the road if you live near the grapevine in SoCal, you can hardly go two miles
without seeing where some poor souls car flamed on and burned. Close to me on
hiway 152 in central california it's even worse. FWIW.
Bill Jepson
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