Car insured for agreed upon value of 10K, current as of June 4/2019. That is the good news.
Bad news, tow home due to hot restart and running incredibly lean or barely able to run at all. Silver lining - Hagerty car club covers first 80 miles or so, of towing. I ate into that a little bit.
Got the car home and went over it, but by the time I plugged in the laptop after it had been in the garage for a while (but 1+ hr at the break down spot had no effect), the car ran fine.
So, was it fuel related? Some suggested so, and I put on a new OEM cap to make sure that venting function, does exist and no suction was created in the tank system when warm/hot from sitting on a hot day.
I have a new spare gas cap which is a cap-less style as it is called, so the nozzle goes right in the cap, and opens a little flap door - nothing more than that.
I was curious if fuel related problems could be caused by my vacuum routing of the fuel pressure solenoid or if pressure was an issue to begin with and or if pressure after shut down was bleeding off by design (flow versus bleed down to meet oem requirements per some enviro emissions law), and aeromotive says in their literature that they focus on flow and as such, it will bleed down the moment the fuel pump is shut down, and pressure is therefore relieved as it follows into the return tube to the tank.
Decided to open my SX Performance/Buschur Racing style AFPR. Diaphragm torn on one side, fuel bubble popped as the vacuum hose was drawn off the vacuum nipple, and more fuel evident in the cap area where atmostphere alone, is supposed to be.
Backstory to the SX/Buschur AFPR - it is a bolt on affair. Nothing simpler by design - one o-ring at the rail, and some parts inside the FPR to balance and keep things separated. Turns out the no longer produced top SX portion with the bottom section Buschur part (produced by ... see tuners thread on this one), had a new lease on life. Edelbrock was reported to have purchased SX Performance and as such are offering replacement diaphragm/FPR kits. Parts were listed in a thread on Tuners. I found the part numbers and link from Tuners, and was offered on Jegs.com and summitracing.com to name a few. SX performance may still have the parts too as the OEM number in house for them was also listed in that thread.
I believe the part number is as follows based upon my order through Summit Racing.com: "EDL-178010
Fuel Pressure Regulator Rebuild Kit, Diaphragm Type, Kit
(Mfr. #: 178010)"
I will add some pictures to show TB work, FPR issues, and ISC stuff. This may take some time.
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