JohnT

yeah sure! The black shot is a few months ago...looked OK in photo's but it had lots of little flaws etc - paint was about 6 years old and was cheapie anti rust paint from Bunnings, so looking at around $20 worth of paint there I sprayed myself. The right hand shot is how it currently looks, getting those flaws out before I spray it again...its definitely not a high dollar car, in the last 18 years, including buying it, buying the donor ZH the ( current) 351 came out of etc., there is about 4 grand in the whole car. but I love it, keeps me going. The new engine is a 302 C with head work, a cam, roller rockers, gear drive, Edelbrock Performer, 660 Quickfuel and a bunch of other stuff. The car it came out of was an XRGT and only came out to make way for a 393 stroker he's got for it, 18+K he's spent on that engine.. I went for a ride in it and was hooked! Very powerful, should be great fun!

yeah sure! The black shot is a few months ago...looked OK in photo's but it had lots of little flaws etc - paint was about 6 years old and was cheapie anti rust paint from Bunnings, so looking at around $20 worth of paint there I sprayed myself. The right hand shot is how it currently looks, getting those flaws out before I spray it again...its definitely not a high dollar car, in the last 18 years, including buying it, buying the donor ZH the ( current) 351 came out of etc., there is about 4 grand in the whole car. but I love it, keeps me going. The new engine is a 302 C with head work, a cam, roller rockers, gear drive, Edelbrock Performer, 660 Quickfuel and a bunch of other stuff. The car it came out of was an XRGT and only came out to make way for a 393 stroker he's got for it, 18+K he's spent on that engine.. I went for a ride in it and was hooked! Very powerful, should be great fun!

Cheers, thank you...looking at it, maybe I'm basing too much of my assumptions on that one spade terminal's location! So if I just run positive from ign to + on the coil I should be good... thank you so much guys, huge help!!

Cheers, thanks for that.. my point is that he only had the one spade terminal so looks like he was running ignition thru the negative side...would you agree that by the looks he's got the coil connected back to front? And yes, 100% agree with you on running 12V, not resistance wire.