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Check your head temp sensor. It's the gang of three electrical connectors on the upper left of your engine, the white connector. When cold it should be around 2500-3500 ohms, when hot around 200-300 ohms. When it's bad usually it causes the car to run too rich and makes the car hard to start. But likely since you smell raw fuel when trying to start it, the problem is with the DME unit (ECU) and needs to be repaired/rebuilt. This is very common now that these cars are over 30 years old and exceeding 100k miles. The DME spurts fuel into the motor when cranking, but the spark is not there, so it does not fire. If you keep cranking like for over 7 seconds and you'll flood the spark plugs and it makes it even harder to fire the motor even if you had a working spark.
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