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Be careful tightening them manifolds... awful easy to break the studs...then you'll really be pissed. Perhaps your half warshers weren't exactly the right thickness? I'd check that first.
When I put my webers on, the intake manifold was much thinner than the exhaust... I successfully ground down the exhaust manifold where the studs are with a dremel. Worked great, though it took about $20 worth of grinding stones...
Electical short causing the ignition can't be too hard to trace. Gotta be either before the coil, or between the coil and the points.
If its before the coil, you can always just run a wire from the battery directly to the coil to get you down the road. Don't forget to disconnect it when you stop... of course, it would be hard to forget, as that's the only way to turn you car off.
If its twixt the coil and the points, Just check all around to find something wrong... usually inside the distributor.
Good luck with it, and no heavy drinking. Fun as it may be, it doesn't bode well for productivity.
-Matt
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-Matt '70 145s, '65 1800s, '66 122s wagon, others inc. '53 XK120 FHC
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