True HEI distributor conversion thoughts

It's easy to determine if the ballast was bypassed........it's a big white ceramic resistor mounted right on the firewall. Or just hook up the ignition to what is there and with the key "in run" measure the voltage to the new system. It must be wired to a load or the resistor will not drop the voltage. With the thing removed/ bypassed, you should get full batt voltlage to the ignition with key "in run" and with key twisted "to start" voltage should be 'same as battery" and at least 10.5V