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I just took 50cc of fuel out of cylinder 3

It looks a lot like the injector has failed.....what the fuck else can go wrong I wonder..........

Bloody exciting

Hope you have warned the neighbours as I'm sure she will make a solid noise when she does fire and run

Hopefully you have triple checked you have oil in the gearbox and idler gear area, etc. ... I know a guy that installed a rebuilt gearbox in a Triumph Stag and went for a test drive before remembering that he had not put oil in it
Pete

I checked the oil but what I did not check well is the injector wiring harness routing it appears.......I was reading a dead short and I'm thinking I just found it...on Cylinder 3.

I got it running! Not on all cylinders but running!

I also set the house on fire. I guess the muffler has filled with fuel and when the engine started it blowout on the floor and gas sure does burn good! It doesn't seem too bad......the car is not damaged.

Clearly I should not have asked what else can go wrong.........oh and neither of the 2 extinguishers I set out would spray. By dumb luck Lana washed her car and just left the house laying in front of the basement door and there's a spigot right outside and I got the fire out.

WTF!

Edit - here's a pic....you can kind of see the car in there is you squint a bit

IT LIVES!!

To paraphrase Victor Frankenstein.

Bit of luck not burning the whole down.

John

It is almost amazing how smoke travels.....Lana is SOOOOO mad at me.

Sounds a lot like good progress, until this last post. Keep up the good work!!!.

It was a very real fire. The floor has a 3 foot by 12-15 foot scorch behind the 1-6 exhaust pipe......I'll bet it was at least 1/2 gallon of gas that sprayed out and caught fire. The ceiling is black, AC ducts hanging because the plastic straps burned off so the smoke was sucked in and pumped everywhere. Lana will have me cleaning and probably painting for weeks and I'm sure there will and outright ban on engines running in the basement going forward which means wheels on and car pushed out before there can be another attempt....and its january so it's frikin cold out.

This is the project from hell.

A few months ago, I plumbed a new fuel system with pressure regulator at the tank, rather than at the engine with a return line. At one point got it a little wrong and found a similar fuel spill on the floor. Fortunately, my spill did not ignite.
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"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

Again, you should have film that, you'd be an internet sensation.
Must have been pretty scary!! Glad nothing worse happened and everybody is ok!
Sorry for that man...