The thing that baffles me more than anything, (besides not starting!), is that the black wire to the negative side of the coil now has 12V as soon as you connect the battery terminal. Am I not correct in thinking that there should NOT be power on that wire?? My logic would say that the positive(red) coil wire should get power with the key on...it does not. As I said, I disconnected the harness(2 wire) to the MSD distributor, bridged the terminals and continually broke that connection looking for spark from the coil wire...NOTHING.