1971 Plymouth Scamp ECS fuel tank vent

First have you made certain "it is" evap controlled? Do you have the extra vent line(s) coming out of the tank and (there may be) the separator can in the trunk? This system changed year to year, and I'm not sure ALL 71's had it. May have been a mid-year change.

So go back to the trunk, look and wrap your hand around the filler neck in the trunk, and see if there's a 1/4" vent tube going down the outside of the neck. If so you already have the older vent

If not, there's a couple of ways to deal with that depending on your creativity

LEAVE the 1/4" line going up into the engine bay, that IS THE VENT. Keep that line "high" in the engine bay to avoid siphon problems. Some guys advocate splicing that line into the filter bonnet or the valve cover breather (multi nipple) to help keep gas smell down

EDIT.............I did not see your second photo at first..........you could just branch the 1/4 tube coming forward from the tank into that breather

Thank you for the input! Just to clarify, the second photo is of the old/stock blue painted valve cover prior to the engine rebuild. We don't plan on using the stock valve covers anymore, so the valve cover breather can't be used. Do you think it would suffice to just route the tube to the filter bonnet (by which I'm assuming you mean the air cleaner but please correct me if I'm wrong)?

Definitely want to try and minimize gas vapor in the engine bay. I've heard people talk about using charcoal canisters to do this, but not sure how something like that would be fabricated/installed. Any input on this would be appreciated.