Start side of ballast was getting just under 12 volts, which is correct. I swapped distributers and that fixed problem. The rebuilt distributer I was using had a air gap that was not parellel, it was at an angle and I coulnt get it a true 8thous from top to bottom, The pick up in the dist may also have been faulty, dont know. with a mopar perf recurved dist. i pulled out of my cuda it fired up and ran for an hour no prob. Voltage at the run side of ballast is now 5.5 volts, still seems low but its running good. Anyone else have under 6 volts going to the coil from the ballast?? Im using a 1 ohm mopar perf ballast resitor.