I f*in hate this car.

This is like watching Karen Black trying to land the 747 over the radio in Airport! Man, I would personally ditch the Electronic dizzy and go back to points. With your understanding of these cars, it is way less likely to keep you from getting to work than a malfunctioning ECU. You didnt turn the distributor, the rotor only goes on one way, the gap should be .008 between the reluctor and the pickup. #1 front cylinder will blow past your finger on compression stroke, when it blows, look at damper and yoll see timing mark. Get it to 8 BTDC and rotor should be pointing to #1 or very close. Make sure ECU is gettig power, tap into pin 1 (top pin, the one on the point of the connector) You should have voltage on both sides of the ballast resistor, coil side may be less, that OK. But yo MUST have power on both sides as one side feeds ECU and the other feeds coil. If you have a dual ballast, you can swap sides if you think one is cracked and open. open ballast resistor will crank and start when key is on start, but will die when in run. You can bypass ballast in a pinch, just bridge 2 connectors with a piece of metal. The ECU needs a good ground, make sure its solid on the bulkhead. If the 2 pin connector between the dizzy and the harness is loose, pull and dick up the metal bullet contacts in the connector ends a bit so they really have to be forced together. Points distributor is a 1 wire deal and that one goes to the Negtative side of the coil. The + side of the coil can go to the battery in an emergency, but its best to go through the ballast to keep your points from arcing and eventually failing (burning up) but itll get you home/to work. I keep a points dizzy in my car first aid box in the trunk (MSD failure lesson). These slant six motor are 1/2 of a jaguar and about 5% of the hoses and wiring. HEI module should cost you about 5 bucks at the pick-a-part, all you need is the module (get about 2 feet of the harness if you can, if they charge you for it, just unplug it and tell them no thanks. Im sure you can scrape up wire and spade connectors. Mount it on the fender because it needs a hard ground too and it acts as the heatsink too. They get hot and will fry if left hanging.