How confident are you of the valve timing? Fairly straightforward to check with the rocker over off…..

Hmmmm…. Still here on my phone….. along with various others My phone also offers the standard (boring) iPhone ones but this forum doesn’t accept them…. Though others using the same software do.  It’s witchcraft I tell you…..

The badges say 2000 and the running gear is clearly big saloon.  Not that I'm interested in buying any of it

Good progress. That rattle sounds awful on my phone speaker though! Have you got an angry seagull trapped under the rocker cover? Spitting back through the carb mouth often indicates lean mixture but I know nothing about Solex carbs and their peculiarities. Apologies for being no help whatsoever

Clarification needed!   The OP.says "Dolomite", the thread title says "Big Saloon"!  

I feel robbed.. 😭

still there on my laptop.....

I notice that on my desktop the forum emoji button now brings up the standard google set rather than the bespoke Sideways ones. So no more dancing banana?

A bit of an 'exhaust thing' there!

Yeah....