Well, one week after my Camaro blew, my grandfather passed away..talk about crap huh, i was the one who found him.. A few weeks ago I got a 89 RS, gonna try to save up some money to fix my old eng. and get it put back in.. Thanks again for everyone's comments

 

WOW, BROTHER WITH LUCK LIKE YOURS, I WOULDNT: FLY, GOTO VEGAS, BUY LOTTERY TICKETS, OR DO ANYTHING THAT HAS THE SLIGHT CHANCE OF LOOSIN MONEY OR CAUSING SERIOUS PHYSICAL HARM OR DEATH TO YOU OR ANYONE NEAR YOU, GOOD LUCK ON YOUR NEW PROJECT AND SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR GRANDFATHER

 

sorry to hear about your grandfather

good luck with the new project thou and post some pics of the progress

 

All that's left is to lose your home and your girl, and it's all uphill from there.

Just a joke, but seriously, stick it out and you'll make it on top with good stories to boot. A good number of people have been really down on their luck and managed to get pretty far with the experiences under their belt.

 

At least she went out like a true camaro, with a bang...lot more exciting then to get in a wreck or just have her crap out on ya..

Ever thought she commited suicide? Were you an abusive owner/

 

yea..she didnt like it when i put the pedal to the floor... she got fed up with me i guess..

 

Really sorry to hear about this... Hope you have better luck coming your way though!

I think you may have had the same problem I had when I had my original 1984 Firebird. I had an Edelbrock Performer Carb as well and the rubber fuel line I had connected to the fuel inlet at the rear just happened to have a pinhole in it pointing directly at the distributer! The car was in the garage (my mother's house which has a garage built into the basement which is right under her room!) when I got in and started it then snap, crakle, poof! I had this huge fireball resting on top of my engine! I immediately shut the key off thinking it was a carb backfire but it just kept burning... I ran and grabbed some laundry I found to try and beat the fire into submission... When that didn't work I ran back into the other side of the basement and caught a glimpse of an ancient fire estinguisher that came with the house (probably from the 70's). I grabbed that old thing and ran back. I squeezed the handle and poof, the fire went out! I was lucky that archaic thing was lying around! I ended up having to change all the ignition wires, cap & rotor (obviously), and a few other misc things...

The solution to this apparently common problem is to run a hard line to the fuel inlet as well as purchasing the Banjo fitting from Edelbrock in order to re-route the incoming fuel line to prevent something like this from happenning.

Once again, I wish you luck in the future and at least no one was hurt!

 

was the fuel line into the carb no leaks or nothing

 

really sorry to hear about that. im putting my car back together now and i know im going to be **** about checking my fuel hoses now.

 

I can tell, you I've had scary overheating concerns but NEVER anything that extreme, also had a rod break on my first car,never got that one back as it was too much to correct money wise.

It's terrible with a setback so enormous... Hope the doctor's news is something you can overcome as well. My dad doesn't know anything about performance engines, per se, but he is somewhat mechanically apt.
I'm leery of any big jobs because I don't want to be worse off then before, but I face some expensive/expansive repair as well on two of my cars. Fingers crossed. Good luck and best wishes!
Bill

 

Yeah, I also am sorry for your loss.... but I know how you feel... Seems things come in 3s.. unless you're me.. then its 4s...

4years ago November, my Gma died.. 3 novs ago my parents house burned down, 2 years ago november my gpa died, and this Nov a lady decided to back into my poor Camaro in a parking lot and try making it MY fault!!! All this was within a week of eachother...

I said I was skipping last Nov.. but decided nothing else could go wrong.. Now I am POSITIVE I am skipping November this year... Thanksgiving can be pushed off till Dec 1st for all I care.. lol. But crap happens. Sorry again.

 

WHAT DOES THE RUBBER FUEL LINE HAVE TO DO WITH IT??? I HAVE A PEICE UNDER MY HOOD, DOOD YOU GOT ME FREAKED OUT

 

iunno, just a guess.... ya see a car burned to the ground from under the hood, ya kinda guess maybe there was a flammable substance involved somehow... just a hunch.


"The simplest explanation that fits all the facts is usually the right one."

— Occam, ancient Greek philosopher; from the days when car engines had a 1 HP limit (multiple engines were allowed though), and the fuel was easier to handle safely

 

Lets just not talk about the exhaust...

 

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Medieval English philosopher and Franciscan monk William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1349).

Everyone knows that they had progressed to the TBI by medieval times.



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Underhood fires are a real thing!
If it happens to you, you find out how real it is.
One of the worst things when a fire happens is rubber fuel line, cause it will burn through in less than 15 sec. And if your fuel pump is pushing fuel through that hole at the time, there's very little chance that the fire will be brought under control before there's major damage or the car is totaled.
With stainless braid, or better yet steel lines, there is less gasoline added to the fire.
Gasoline is on the top of the list of things NOT to put on a fire... unless you don't want it to go out.
Rubber fuel lines = bad

 

Kay that didnt even come close to my question......

When my fuel line going to my carb twisted, my fault i got a peice from the junkyard and and put the 2 ends i had together with a short peice of rubber hose, real thick fuel hoes, its near the valve cover, that why I needed to know, how is this bad?

 

It fails. Always. Guaranteed.

See the pic at the top of this post for the results of a rubber fuel line failure.

Some things aren't worth cheeeeeeeeping out on.

 

bad luck bro. Let me know if you want to unload the dead camaro with a clean title / bill of sale. I have brought worse cars back to life. I have the parts to do it.... all I need is a body to create another Frankenstein!!!!

 

really sorry to hear about all the bad things that happened to you lately.....



the rubber fuel line is starting to scare me too....i bought braided steel fuel line which has just regular 3/8 rubber line inside for my fuel line from my fuel pump to my carb......looks like im going to have to get a piece of steel line and reroute it up to the carb......


good luck to ya man on your car...hope you figure something out!

 

The stainless braided line is OK; as long as it has real fittings on it.... not hose clamps.

I prefer to bend up a piece of 3/8" steel brake line when I can. I'll use the other if I have to. NEVER EVER a piece of regular rubber "fuel line" on the pressurized side of the pump, not even as a "temp" measure to "get by" until I can do something else. If I don't have the right thing, I just won't run the car. I work on my cars, and sometimes park them, INSIDE MY HOUSE. About the last thing I'd need is to set both my car and my house on fire from a fuel leak.

That's interesting about William of Ockham. I'll have to see if I can locate the originator of the postulate. Hermes Trismegistus, perhaps?