Cold Start Issues

I was able to do a little more work on this issue when I was home. So like normal I ran out of time so I wasnt able to do everything that was suggested here but I was able to find a couple things out:

upon opening the throttle plates on the cold motor, the choke plates do close. It still cranks like no ones business with no starting. So again I had to prime it with starting fluid.

It fired right up after that. The choke plates were still closed but if you did not feather the throttle it would die. I was about to adjust the fast idle screw when I noticed the fast idle cam was not engaged (however the choke plates were still closed). So I manually set the fast idle cam, twist the key and the car fired right up and ran on its own.

So for what ever reason the choke plates close like they should, but the fast idle cam is not rotating into position like it should. How can that be?