Are you cranking it up without glowing first? If your doing a glow cycle and its still taking that long and that many cranks I'd think there's something wrong....with a 5 sec glow my car starts in one rotation 99% of the time, two rotations the other 1% and I have quite a bit more blowby than that....


Edit: Me and greasybenz seem to have had the same thought at the same time!

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