After removing the box and inspecting the wiring harness, it appears that some of the wires were frayed and grounding out on the wheel well.
@tgreese was right all along! I should have started here 2 weeks ago. I was afraid of unhooking the box and being worse off than I was, but it was easy to remove.
Rewired ignition coil, and then I removed the distributor cap and tested with the dwell meter, which indicated I was around 30°
After putting everything back together, it fired right up and ran for a couple of minutes!
We had a small victory!
Video for y'all to watch.
https://youtube.com/shorts/wc77GkWFki8?feature=share
Unfortunately once the choke came off it died.
I figured this was due to:
A) Curb idle set too low
B) Float to low
So today after work I raised the float, and it would not idle on choke. I then raised the curb idle a little to keep up which made idle even worse.
Since it was only half running, the bowl started flooding because engine couldn't keep up.
This led me to install a fuel pressure regulator I had lying around.
As luck would have it, it leaked like crazy, so I taped fittings up with Teflon tape. Also pinstriped a spider web on it just for fun.
Unfortunately being in a small garage, I began to feel sick from huffing gas vapors for 45 minutes while all this was going down so I called it a night.
Tomorrow I will lower float and hopefully get it to idle.
On a side note, I've been reading up on carb theory. Would recommend this book for anyone needing some good baseline knowledge.
Hopefully y'all can follow along with this mix matched, poorly written update. I'm blaming the gas vapors.
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