Carburetor vent routing

[jcwren]

This is fundamentally the carb I put on my '70 L6. Should I add a length of fuel line to this vent tube to it route somewhere it won't drop on the headers if it overflows? And would you expect it to overflow under normal conditions, or only if the float valve gets stuck open or something odd like that?

The truck had an Offenhauser triple carb intake installed, and three uninstalled remanufactured Tomco single barrels similar to this one, but without the electric choke. It also came with the the factory single carb intake.

I swapped back to the single carb intake and bought a single barrel carb with electric choke to get it up and running. Setting up the linkages on the Offenhauser intake was too much trouble before I was certain the engine was solid. And while a set of triples would be pretty cool, I'll likely sell that setup and go to a single 4 barrel.

I will say this little 250 with the headers and glasspacks on 2 1/2 inch exhaust sounds pretty damn good