Thanks Ryan. I've been slowly working away on it and picked up some motivation lately.

I think I can safely say that cleaning up the ground previously has taken care of my cold start issue too. The car sat for a week while I was on vacation and the first thing I did on New Years morning was to go out to grab a coffee. It ran perfectly!


Mini update:
I received my minty fresh new gauge hood.


And put it in.


Oh, so much better