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An old guy once told me that 90-percent of all fuel problems are ignition. I have yet to prove him wrong.

Check all your connections, the coil in the HEI cap, you shouldn't have a ballast resistor in the system any more (if you do, there's your problem, and it may have fried the coil), and check the rotor.

I also ALWAYS put an inline glass fuel filter right in front of the carb. If you're going cheap, you can get one from the parts store. For my '62, I bought a late-50s style reproduction, glass fuel-bowl style filter and plumbed it in with hard line. It looks clean and right at home. A clear fuel filter will always help you diagnose a problem: you know if fuel is getting to the carb (plugged fuel line, dead fuel pump), if it is in the carb then the carb could be a problem (easy enough to check) and if the carb and pump are good, then it's ignition.

-Brad