I bought a new battery for my multi meter and went out to check resistance. 1.2 on the coil and 1.3 on the resistor. I'm going to give a lower resistance ballast a try like you run Pennyman. Thanks for the info. Yes geezer, that's why I was curious about what the resistance on the stock coils was. Some of the aftermarket coils run a higher resistance so that they won't burn up electronic ignitions when run straight from 12 volts. I was going to calculate out the current that the stock system was drawing and make sure I was pretty close to that. It is worth noting that there is a spare coil, ICM, and cap/rotor kept under my seat should I let the smoke out!
I stay close to the stock timing and run my plug gaps up at the high. I think I'm going to give undergapping a shot. I had 4 or 5 degrees of extra static timing in but would get light pinging in certain light throttle cruise situations. How much extra timing do you run geezer?