Nah it turns out I did the next best thing. Wife and I left him, almost perfect stranger, here in our room, with all of our stuff, while we made a walmart run that turned out to take us 10+ miles from the hotel. When we got back he was sound asleep, cowered under a pillow like a scared bunny rabbit. Maybe my talk of S&M scared him or something. Geez, I was just kidding Austin. OR was I....
I think he was disappointed that we weren't toting alcohol with us. He'll be in plenty good shape for you guys. I do think that we got this fuel issue figured out. I'm pretty certain that his gigantic aluminum fuel filter mounted pretty much at the fuel rail, hanging over the exhaust DP, etc. is pulling a lot of heat and transferring it to the fuel. That aluminum transfers heat both ways, if it gets to 190 above the DP and fuel is flowing, it's gonna heat the hell out of the fuel. When it was acting up, you couldn't hang on to that fuel filter canister, it was HOT. 10-15 minutes later, it'd prime and fire and we were off, for 10-20 minutes, and then it would die again. We limped it to our hotel where he jumped in with us to get punched in at the venue. I bummed some thermal insulation stuff from the GM motor medics, looks kinda like header wrap, but in a sleeve form. They cut me a foot or so, then back here at the hotel Austin showed me his mad skillz at sliding a tight sleeve over large cylindrical objects (the trick is to spit on it, said he saw it in a movie or two). He also showed me how to cut 12 ga. wire with a crescent wrench. Hopefully the insulation at least slows it down to hourly stops for him in the AM. If not, we're going to steal the section of -8 AN line from the display at edelbrock so we can move the filter over on the inner fender. As far as the gas leakage goes, it's gotta be vent related. It's coming out of the original sender area on top of the tank. He said the vent is open on it and that he MAY HAVE pinched the OE lines shut when he did the sump. I think it may have pushed fuel through the OE lines instead of venting properly for some reason. Regardless, running without the gas cap seems to have fixed that deal for now. Maybe it has something to do with the vapor lock issue somehow, i dunno. Guess we'll know more tomorrow.
Damn, I wasn't supposed to post tech in this thread. Sorry guys.