Well it's cranking but no sign of real life, I smell gas, so check, I have everything re-wired the way it was (photo checked) 6 months ago so? Begin aggravation..... No, stop, look at everything again. Hmm....that's odd, the plug wire on the #1 spot is going to the wrong end of the engine. Ok Dumbass, look at all of them again (I only had 1 and 3 switched but that was enough).
Now I get a cough, begin to dial back the mixture till the coughs get stronger, keep going and vroom, my baby is purring again! Oh wow, and it's smooth too. I did have an odd distinct whistle (that I took to be a vacuum leak) but a call to my recent Porsche whisperer teacher instantly suggested that was an open port for the power brakes that my car doesn't have. Plug that (then reset my mixture and idle) and suwheet!
Then #2 DA move of the week. I discovered this one last week but hadn't dealt with it yet. I didn't think about the clutch fork when I slipped the engine in. Therefore I had trapped it back doing nothing. I started to put her away as it was 5pm and time to get the munchkin but I was way too excited about an operable machine this close. So I pulled the engine enough to properly align that fork and put it back in.
It's amazing how you learn all these little things along the way and [hopefully] don't have to repeat them.
Not only have I solved all the funky noises but as of last night re-starting the car after several hours and dead cold was an instant twist of the key affair (like it's supposed to be) I'll do yet another happy dance if that holds true after 24 hours of sitting there (like it's supposed to do) as I have never in my ownership of this car gotten it to restart after more than 1/2 hour w/o opening the decklid and tickling the throttle plate.
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