ok im sticking this up for a mate.
he bought a car for next to nothing as he wanted the engin loom and tank etc to do a conversion.
he didnt want his car to be off the road for to long so decided to try and get the engine running in the car before removing it.

he encountered a few problems along the way with the loom. (it was just chucked in the boot, never actually run in the car)
he struggled getting the fuel pump and things to run.

he now has a spark and is using a 12 supply straight off the battery to get the fuel pump running.
there is definately fuel making it into the engine. but it just wont start.
we tried pumping the butterfly flap thingy (i think thats the technical term for it anyway) in the metering head but stil now joy. it really does ound like its not even trying.

a few things i noticed that i wanted to query was this:
2 female spade connectors on the ecu loom just before the multi plug. these have nothing going to them

also the firing order is 1,3,4,2 if i am correct. does this go clockwise or anticlockwise on the distributer, is no. 1 the top one?

basicially what would be really handy is a quick list of things to check that would cause the car not to start.
someone done this for me before when my novas engine didnt start and it was very very handy. (things like cps, fuel pump relay etc)

one last thing, the small boost hoses. on the engine they go from the top of dump vavle to the square inlet manifold thing, and also from there it goes to the ecu and it T's off to what i think would be for a boost gague but there isnt one at the moment so that isnt going anywhere.

any help and advice would be great as he was kind of hoping to get this engine running and then do the conversion before central day!

cheers in advance guys