That's definitely a possibility. The family race car back in the early 1950s had a bad habit of collapsing the float when the engine popped back through the carb, but it had main jets drilled out to almost 1/8" in diameter and the engine was running on an alcohol/peroxide mixture. The carb was a Zenith 2 barrel from a BIG Mack truck 6 cylinder gasoline engine. Getting that much pressure back into the float bowl on a street engine would be difficult at best.
Jerry

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