My usual daily driver's broken and waiting who knows how long on parts, so I'm driving the car with the Datsun engine.
It's pretty cold here right now. Today the high temp was a little below freezing. Weds the high temp is going to be like 20F/-7C. Low temp will probably be like -15C.
The car will start, but I have to crank for a VERY long time, because (it sounds like) it's flooding. Usually when it's cold I give it one push of the throttle and then crank for a short bit and it'll fire. Right now, giving it no gas at all, the moment I crank the engine it fires a little, then dies, and then it won't do anything until I step on the throttle once to give it a bit of gas in the carb, and then it almost immediately reeks of gas and eventually (presumably I'm evaporating the excess gas) it starts to kinda fire and for a while it's like half running half cranking and then it fires up.
To be fair, all the 1980s cars I had did the same thing but they definitely started faster.
Any suggestions?
This car does not have a cold start dashpot where it pulls intake from the exhaust. It's just straight out the carb (and the hood) to an air cleaner. I've adjusted the automatic choke (the engine's from a 1981 B210) to the winter position.