ok. $20 napa coil, 40 year old accel dual point distributor, and it ran like the proverbial raped ape! feathered into it, hit 6k in first gear and the tires broke loose! ran it through 1st and 2nd a few times, was so happy to have the engine back again! damn that was fun!

put the msd coil back on and it stumbled and fell all over the place. tried it through the ballast resistor and straight 12v, and it was even worse. why it wasn't acting that bad with the msd, i don't know, but at least for the moment, that looks like it.

so going to order a new coil and see what happens... will post again...

so why do we run electoric ignition and these msd boxes?