Ok, so just to recap for the day before I take a break from all this.

-I checked for continuity on the engine side of the wire harness.

-I did find a small gauge fried tachometer wire that ran to the ignition coil. That tachometer and wire was eliminated.

-Checked the voltage regulator (which I assume is bad) possible cause of problem?

-Electronic ignition module wire that connects to distributor has continuity, probably a ground.

So for my next step, connect all the wires so I can check for ground to short? If I understand correctly, the wires have to be all connected in order to check that.

*Without simply connecting the battery and seeing what wire fries first, of course