Installed a manual choke cable. Hopefully that will help with easier starting, if not it will be removed and I'll continue to warm up the car the hard way!
Took the cougar for spin around the block. Recorded a short video of the engine running. The engine was cold in the beginning of the video so the engine stumbled a bit when in gear. After warming up a few minutes it ran good.
Heres a link to the video of the engine running
https://youtu.be/lxGYVzHH4Ec