I usually set off pretty quickly. Certainly in less than a minute. I find if I set off immediately though, then CIS hasn't warmed up and I get some hesitancy for the first block. When I let it "warm up" in the driveway for maybe 30 seconds, I don't get that hesitancy usually. So you're saying that on cold starts, and low oil pressure the parts aren't getting enough oil? My brother likes to idle his car before taking off sometimes for a few minutes, but I've ready its not the best idea.

The part about "clears things up" sounds plausible from my end.

Plugs were selected by my mechanic, a knowledgeable guy. I haven't pulled them since the rebuild 2500 miles ago. But I will. I did do all the CIS tests and ran an AFR meter in the tail pipe after the rebuild to get my AF mix dialed in.

So if fuel pressure has built up between drives, how does letting the pump run for 5 seconds relieve this? Does it equalize in the FD and return to tank?

Actually it has nothing too do with liking to let it idle, it's just that I often get distracted by how much better my car looks in the garage sitting next to yours.......or it's because I don't really ever get to see your car, it being in the rear view mirror most of the time.........either that or I've got a sandwich needs tending to.

Either way, once she's on, I'm not shutting her down just to save some idle time. Either this Germanic machine can take it or I'm not interested.

you can run the pump before a cold start, see if that helps with first start up.

I understand that with the first start it runs bad but if you shut it off then restart it starts fine, correct?

Yep, starts immediately every time. Start immediately on the restart too.

Ok. I just did this. It fired right up and idled immediately at 1000rpm. But that doesn't tell me much, since it does this on its own maybe 30% of the time. I still haven't tested my TTS, but given that the car starts 100% of the time on the first crank, I think I'm getting cold start injection just fine.