Hey, glad you got it running! Good feeling, eh?
...turns out the ignitor unit I had purchased was bad from the box. We switched out the unit and took the ground wire off the coil and then had to adjust the timing but now she runs like a champ.
While not impossible, it might not have been bad right out of the box. Hooking your coil to the intake manifold to ground would not only have kept it from working, but very likely overheated it pretty quickly whenever the key was turned on.
I don't know if grounding the module would instantly have fried it or not, but it would certainly not have made it happy.
Either way though, glad you got the ground disconnected and the beast up and running.
Now on to the next fun thing.
Paul
