Oil filter bulge, Jiffy Pop NEW concern, 1 cyl intermittently pre-detonates help! Michigan Build, 2016 Build-Off Options

[Garland]

This engine is for my Michigan Build, 2016 Build-Off Challenge. Needed to come to the "Garage" for some help.

Fresh rebuilt on start up, my first oil filter inflated, then leaked at the seal. Second try, filter massive leak blew the seal out. I have a flow probem. Looking for help. I must be building pressure, just won't leave the filter.

[Mark Henry]

I love the DCNF, infact I have a set of Gene Berg 42 specials on my '67 bus...but you won't like them on a 914.

DCNF are the ultimate cruiser carb in a straight line, for highway use.
In a 914, as soon as you hit the twisties, every hard corner you will have one carb cut out from fuel starvation. Turn left and one carb cuts out, turn right and it's the other.
Berg did several things to help this issue in his 42 specials, but it didn't eliminate the problem.
I had a set of non -berg 42mm DCNF's in my old VW squareback and just going around a cloverleaf my carbs would cut out.

In a Ferrari or the Maserati (with the Ferrari engine) this isn't an issue, as the carb is turned 90* and the fuel starvation fault is under deceleration/braking. It's how Weber designed the fuel bowl and float to get around this issue.