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It started without fault when I first had it. Noticed it after replacing the split intake rubber and refitted the missing metal breather pipe from the crankcase.

I’d say it’s got gradually worse since it first started doing it.

I took a video tonight, I’ll try and get the link up ASAP. It has never sounded worse on startup. Glad I got that on camera. It sounded like it was on 3 cylinders. It did catch first turn of the key though.

In the video I start it at 10 seconds in, the idle is rough until 40 seconds then the car won’t rev without hunting/ faltering until 1:10 After that I tried turning it of and restarting a few times but the problem wouldn’t repeat itself.

So:
30 seconds of really rough idle
Then another 30 seconds of level idle but won’t rev
1 minute after starting the car both the idle and running is back to normal

Unplugged the cold start valve and it kept starting first time. I’ll keep trying a combination of cold and hot starting with the plug in and out later.

Also ordered up a fuel filter. Probably Unrelated, but I haven’t done any work on the fuel system yet.