Split the inlet manifold this afternoon, after the car's been sat on ramps for the past week while I painted the rear subframe.
All looks fine, some oil misting on everything as you'd expect but nothing excessive and no sign of condensation.
I then tried to start it to move off the ramps it turned and turned with no attempt whatsoever to fire up. Oh bu**er.
Pulled the spark plugs and they were soaked as well as quite sooty #4 was possibly slightly better than the rest. Quick spray with brake cleaner and under the soot they looked fine. Let everything dry out before refitting and...still nothing.
It eventually stumbled into life after about 10mins of on-off cranking, but would just die below 3000rpm. Finally after the 3 or 4th restart from it dying, it was just fine (well, I say fine, certainly not running as smooth as it should have been, but able to keep an idle on its own).
Started it twice since then and it's started fine and back to the usual bogging down after a couple of seconds.
Thoroughly stumped now.
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