Got fuel, spark, comp but no start

Good points, all around. My suggestion to bump with relay was only to check for compression stroke against dist. position, since it doesn't activate the coil.

It's super easy to check dist. against cam. Technically, you can put the dist., wherever you like and as long as you've got the wires routed for it, it can run, but no matter where the gear or distributor is, it has to be approaching true TDC, on compression cycle.