Day two of the 64 Valiant

Johnny Dart said

Sounds like fuel percolating.
Start by getting the carb off the intake with a small heat insulator spacer. Then I would do the slant 6 fuel mod with the fuel line. Basically, the fuel line comes from the fuel pump, up over the valve cover. The coolant through the Clifford intake, is a trick set-up. It actually warms the carb up when cold, and then keeps it at running temp once running. I have the same set-up.

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Thanks, my intake is hooked to the heater hose, it runs through the intake under the carb. As for the fuel line, I want to run it up from the pump, add a fuel filter behind the alternator but........I am leaning on cleaning up the engine a bit and want to run the fuel line around the front lower edge of the valve cover until its 90 degrees to the right of the carb, bend the line accordingly and route it to the carb. Also the vacuum line will be hard lined and routed in the same fashion. This is to clean up the lines so nothing is running over the valve cover. Thinking of eliminating the heater hose to the valve cover or doing a 90 degree elbow so the heater hose is routed better too. Think a small piece of aluminum under the carb extending out on the underside of the carb will suffice?