Originally Posted by flexus

for C Man: Priming the pump isn't any help, starting bad seems to be something random for me really. Sometimes i'm in a hurry to leave i think ah screw it and turn the key right off and it starts incredibly fast, other times i wait like 10 seconds after i turn the key for it to have time and it still starts after 5 seconds cranking. When i had the whole intake + elbows and stuff installed after intake gasket replacement it started perfect the first day. After that started to go bad again, i'm thinking there may actually be a point to the whole "air tight" conduit problem. While you drive you rattle the car a lot, and stuff gets more loose then when you put it together in the first place. So for example, the day i looked around my elbow and moved it around, pushed it in etc, car started instantly. Later that night after a drive, slow again

Also, someone said about fuel smell, when i stop the car after driving a while, when i get out of the car i feel a STRONG smell of fuel coming from the rear wheel direction!!! I'm wondering where that could be from??? The cap is definately sealed tight! Could it be that the pipes from the EVAP canister are blown/rusted or the rubber hoses that connect around there are dead and leaking??? Could something else cause that powerful fuel smell? After a few minutes stopped the smell goes away.