We don't envy all of you in the south with the with the hurricanes, tornadoes. earthquakes and wildfire, but the warm weather sure sounds sweet.

Come on up to the Great Lakes country, there is still snow, cold and ice enough to go round.
Now that's the time to call on the trusted Heavy Metal. 
Once you start  it     you've got it made.

Spring will come.................

I have posted some pics. of 12/2 engines at the link listed. (There not all mine)   http://new.photos.yahoo.com/johnm49lister/
The Blue chrome & Unknown have the normal head arrangement. The air intakes are next to each other, and the exhaust are on the out side edges of the heads. On my metro it came with a different set up,(the one intake is broken) each intake is on the right and each exhaust is on the left, with this setup the tappets, lifters, rockers, & valves are stock but the cam is set up different according to where it should open what valve.
Now I bring this up for 2 reasons.  1) has any one else seen or have a set up like this?  I have not heard of it yet.   2) it's unlikely but this may be one of your problems.  Although I would think one of the cylinders should fire. 

Everyone lets keep on this and help get this oddball going 

Here’s a thought for you Rob. On your engine do you have 2 heads that are identical, or do you have a right hand head and a left hand head? My 12/2 Metro was assembled with 2 heads the same, this means that one side is using the intake port for the exhaust and one exhaust as an intake. The cam is set up different than a normal 2 cylinder engine. This means that the set up will not match the standard set up. I have not done a tare down on it yet but...............
I sounds like you have the timing process down, this may be another variable that is throwing things off. Just a thought
Greg

I was really looking forward to emptying it with a bullet to the head with candles around but now I feel compelled to be responsible and use it over a more extended period of time.

Thanks for the input everyone.

While on my travels around the area I came upon a 20 lb propane tank that looked in good shape at the curb for garbage pick up.  I stopped and took a look and it was in good shape and has product in it. What a catch!!  When I got it home and took it out of the car I realized the valve was fully open!javascript:void(0);
Shocked I shook it again and yes indeed it has propane in it.  I shut the valve and opened the valve, nothing.  I shut the valve and opened the valve, still nothing. Dose any one have an idea how to recover the propane, other than bringing the tank to 60 below zero and pouring off the liquid?

A manual transfer switch is acceptable to use. They are used on many large size installs where the entire facility is to be feed from utility power or a generator. Some installs such a hospital will have sub panels of critical needed circuits that are connected to a transfer switch and the switch will feed only the sub panels to cut down on the load that the generator needs to provide. The utility power comes into the building and directly to the transfer switch. From there you chose what source of power you want to feed your panel. There are manual or automatic switches from 60 amp to 1000+++ amp switches.

 In this case it was a case of the big shop doing a simple rebuild on an NT855. A 1970s vintage engine, very basic. What everyone over looked was that it was a fire pump. The only people that there is something deeper than the obvious and took the time to dig deep to fine the problem was a small shop 4 man shop that had more than the bottom line driving the business. This has earned it’s reputation it this town. Ho ya the problem, …..
Cummins kept providing standard piston kits when what was required was a severe duty piston that ran with only splash lub from the crankcase not lubed from the nozzles on the oil rail. 

It is unlikely that a electric fuel pump will work for you. The pumps for most cars are built to pump a light viscosity fluid. The motor and impeller are matched to handle the light viscosity, when you try to pump something heaver the motor will likely over heat and burn out.