Originally Posted by fatty

ill try and remember what i was doing after i rebuilt my engine .. bare in mind its an rs not too sure about the xr3i..

Yeh take the little holding in plates off the inlet manifold and pull the injectors and stick each one in a pot or plastic bottle. On the rs i bridged the fuel relay from memory then take off the air filter and push the flap of the metering unit down and it should squirt fuel out the injectors.

Another one that seems to help to get them started is bump starting it down the road ( not ideal in your case ) .

sounds like there,s a few other potential issues down the line .

Do they xr3i's have the white coolant temp sender in the manifold like the rs ? that tells the ECU the temperature / enrichment whatever and can cause poor starting. i changed mine back years ago.

Be cool to see it in person and have a tinker..bit hard to think now without having it in front of me.