Major screw up

[grannyknot]

Are those puffs coming out of the tail pipe or the air horns?

[240260280z]

you may have to hold the linkage (throttle valves) open more when someone else cranks

[Zed Head]

When is the last time the engine ran? Puff-puff-puff while cranking might be an intake valve stuck open or an exhaust valve not opening. Or a leak at the manifolds. Are you sure everything is tight?

[Reverend]

Puffs are coming from the tailpipe. I got manifolds pretty tightly torqued. Yea, got to get a pair of hands for help. Car ran about 6 months ago (with SU's)

[Reverend]

I did the adjustments by manual (idle speed and mixture screws) and managed to fire it up, yay! But it runs super rough, only like on 3 cylinders. When i rev it, it spits and coughs but fires up more cylinders. All in all, i dont really know is it the timing or badly tuned carbs

[240260280z]

double check plug wire order

[Reverend]

Plug wires are okay. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vw2pznsl2eg6uq9/20140310_191707.mp4

Im planning to reduce timing a bit and try again.

[Reverend]

Works quite good now, idle is still quite rough. I do have unisyn tool but its not accurate enough, it seems. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qdavlotzfpam95x/20140315_125936.mp4

Weirdest thing: i have some sort of liquid coming from the exhaust.. its clear and quite tasteless. Not fuel. I got scared and opened the oil pan, but luckily only oil came out. My car has been in quite cold garage trough the winter and fuel is over 6 months old, i wonder is it possible that water has been condensed in to tank and now pouring out the exhaust?

[Zed Head]

Water is a product of petroleum combustion. It's normal. Normally it would stay in vapor phase but your cold exhaust system is causing it to condense to liquid, and drip out the tail pipe.

[Reverend]

Good to know, never has it happened before so thats why i spooked. Let the adventure continue then!

[grannyknot]

Reverend, so what did you do the match up the triples to the stock throttle linkage?

[Reverend]

I still havent them matched up. Im looking for parts locally so i could do THIS:

I know where to get them balljoints but the rest of the parts i need....