Plug wires are in order..........But are you sure that they are in the correct rotation for a small block? I think the rotor spins clock wise someone PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah it's clockwise. 18436572 is burned into my brain :)
Actually the distributor, plug wires, all ignition got transferred straight over from the running engine I took out. I have now started to question why I pulled a perfectly good running engine to do this :)