Engine died during break-in

pishta said

do you have a timing light? Put it on the coil lead, then move it to the spark plug lead. IF you have trigger at coil lead and none at spark plug lead, your "open" between them or your coil is not strong enough to jump the 1/32 gap of the rotor/cap.

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I have a pertronix flamethrower 40111 epoxy coil listed in specs as 1.5 ohm and 10.60k secondary resistance. However, the label on the coil itself says 0.6 ohm. I removed the coil from the car for testing. With my free harbor freight meter on the lowest ohm setting of 200, I got 3.0 ohms for primary resistance checked from the pos to neg terminals. I got 8.89 ohms secondary resistance checking from the coil tower contact to either pos or neg terminal. Using a Greenlee meter, I got 0.9 primary and 8.88 secondary. I'm assuming the harbor freight meter is not calibrated well. Are the 0.9 and 8.88 numbers far enough off to assume the coil is weak?