As Sospan says the +8 runs very hot under the bonnet and our USA summers can be significantly hotter than the UK summers. On my 94 +8 I have heat wrapped the fuel lines (a cheap fail safe) as they run close to the headers and the engine bay has no insulation, the fact it started and ran OK after under 1/2 a mile would indicate it just needed fresh fuel to the engine.


Bruce
1964 4/4 Series V Comp (Megan)
1994 +8 (Maurice) tis no more
2013 M3W (Olga)