So I am in the middle of swapping my points for an HEI distributor, and I was having some trouble getting any spark out of the thing. So, I took it all apart and set up a test rig for it. The test rig works great (I guess I just had a loose wire initially), so I took a video of it and put it up on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSoBODtk9Y
I'll probably post again later describing the setup in more detail in case anyone else is interested.