T for 2

Okay so it's been a couple of weeks since the last update. We are having trouble getting this thing started. Larry bought a generic Billet distributor that didn't have the timing locked out but he welded the plates together and we then installed it. It seemed like the distributor bolt was stripped and we were having trouble bolting it down. This is what caused us to not be able to get it started last week. We figured that we would address it on this past Saturday. When cranking the engine it didn't want to start and there was no spark. The distributor looked like it was walking around and so we pulled the distributor. We examined the length of the shaft and to our surprise the shaft was too long so we cut the shaft and reinstalled it. Ee were then able to get it running but it was all over the place on the timing. After a period of playing with this distributor I decided to try my tsp distributor that I got from Johnny pace. We couldn't even get it to try to start with this distributor and I'm not sure why. So after playing with it for quite some time we put his distributor back in as this was the only one we actually were able to get it to start with. After playing around with it for quite some time I decided two try reversing the coil wires from distributor. Bingo it started and was running fine for about 5 minutes with about 10 degrees of advance and it matched with the controller said. We will all excited and happy that this thing was finally running when it just shut off and wouldn't restart. We checked it with the timing light and there's no spark we disconnect the coil wire and we're able to get it to arc to ground. We reinstalled the coil wire and nothing. We removed the distributor and turned the shaft and we got a nice strong spark from the MSD. We put the distributor back in and again, no spark. No matter what we do with timing it seems like the spark is intermittently there and then not. We tried 2 different distributors and we are at our wits end.with this! We are going to call Fitech tomorrow. Just wanted to update.
P.S. If you have any suggestions we're listening.