Hi Gang-
It's been a long time since I've dropped in to say hello! Hope everyone is well. Life has a way of taking over, and with a couple of little kids, I don't have nearly as much time to spend with my cars as I used to... but I have run into a problem with my X1/9 that I want to take care of before it gets put away for the winter.
My car is an 83 (fuel injected). Fuel pump is an electric one. Liner from the engine lid has been removed, so I have much better air flow than stock. I also have a K&N filter installed.
On a hot day, the car will start to sputter a slow speeds or when stopped at a light, and will usually stall. Sometimes I can recover it before it stalls by quickly pumping the gas, but that's not often... usually it just dies there in traffic, and won't start again until it's cooled off a bit. Thermostat works and doesn't indicate overheating.
Once the car has decided it's cool enough, it starts right back up like nothing happened.
Vapor lock perhaps? I was thinking about ordering some heat shield tape to wrap the fuel pump and lines with, but if there's a better fix (or different diagnosis!!) I'm certainly open to it!
EDIT: Join date 2012 LOL... I've been around since the 90s. In perusing the forums there don't appear to be many of the old timers still hanging around here.
It's been a long time since I've dropped in to say hello! Hope everyone is well. Life has a way of taking over, and with a couple of little kids, I don't have nearly as much time to spend with my cars as I used to... but I have run into a problem with my X1/9 that I want to take care of before it gets put away for the winter.
My car is an 83 (fuel injected). Fuel pump is an electric one. Liner from the engine lid has been removed, so I have much better air flow than stock. I also have a K&N filter installed.
On a hot day, the car will start to sputter a slow speeds or when stopped at a light, and will usually stall. Sometimes I can recover it before it stalls by quickly pumping the gas, but that's not often... usually it just dies there in traffic, and won't start again until it's cooled off a bit. Thermostat works and doesn't indicate overheating.
Once the car has decided it's cool enough, it starts right back up like nothing happened.
Vapor lock perhaps? I was thinking about ordering some heat shield tape to wrap the fuel pump and lines with, but if there's a better fix (or different diagnosis!!) I'm certainly open to it!
EDIT: Join date 2012 LOL... I've been around since the 90s. In perusing the forums there don't appear to be many of the old timers still hanging around here.
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