Patrick,
Although it could be all sorts of other things, you could be right about
water in the tank. I got the same symptoms after a bad fill-up [water in the
filling station tanks - after I found out the problem I drained about an inch
of water from my tank]. The car wasn't a Healey, it was my Lotus 7 replica kit
car - its petrol pick-up is at the front of the tank so I got the symptoms you
described when coming to a halt at a road junction on a downhill. The engine
would falter on acceleration from the junction and then clear itself a few
yards down the road.
Wouldn't hurt to wrap the exhaust as well. My BN2 got so hot under there one
day this summer that some grease I put on the handbrake linkage produced clouds
of white smoke after a few miles driving.
Rgds
Mike Brooks
Milan Italy
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