Well I definitely have a bad ballast resistor, removed it and it's broken, can see it from the back side. It died while running, then wouldn't crank. Put in a new starter relay last year, although that doesn't mean it hasn't gone bad already. Battery is good. Starter relay is for an automatic, but it's a stick shift so that's wired to ground. Could have been a faulty ground there I suppose. The MSD is wired per the directions, have to double check that but it ran fine for about 200 miles. Left the ballast resistor in like MSD says you can, just in case the MSD acted up and I wanted to switch back. I just don't get why jumpering out the resistor allowed the car to crank again. I was trying ti crank the car after every check I made, and that's the one that made the difference. Guess I'll check my ground from the starter relay for the neutral safety switch.