So my friend Paul came over last night, after huge amount of p155 taking. He made it clear i would never live this down and come Le-Mans this year i would indeed be a laughing stock... -However it has turned out i am vindicated.
Paul checked all my settings and found everything to be 100% correct, ok i made a few minor blunders (due to inexperience), however it should have run. He then started to check a little deeper and found that even though i had the timing correct (as per Jaguars official workshop manual) it seemed to be 180 degrees out!!!
But, this is where it gets odd, everything i did was correct...
So the distributor was removed and it seems like the nice men at the machine shop had put the dog tooth drive 180 diffidently / wrong compared to the Jaguar Manual. As i had no idea the dizzy dog drive is left off set (22D6 Dizzy only fits one way), i didn't know this could be wrong / different. As i followed the manual to the letter i had no way of knowing this was the problem. (so 1 was firing on its exhaust stroke and 6 was doing the same!)
Paul said to reverse the leads on the dizzy and everything would work... In the mean time the Dizzy electrical connector tab broke so we had to mend that..
the engine started first time at midnight, first press of the button and after about 1 second on the starter which is very unusual for a Jaguar!!!!!
So, its running, i am disappointed the machine shop built the £3K engine differently from the book, however it is very minor, if everything else is ok i'll be happy. It sounded great, didne leak at all in the 2-3 minutes it was running. Now i just need to tune the carbs, put the gearbox oil in (20/50) and get that MOT after i change the front shockers!!
Thankyou all who suggested (pryantcc thankyou for your dogged detirmination). I have learned that even if you are correct, does not mean the people before you were!!!!
