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Non-starting is due to problems with fuel or fire. Sounds like you have now narrowed it to fire.
If that is the case, you simply have to work your way back. Are the plugs firing? (You know, pull a plug, ground the threads and turn the motor over looking for spark.) If so, I would think the problem has to be in the timing, though I know you have checked it.
If you have no spark, you might want to go back to a points system just to see if it will start. If so, that isolates the electronic ignition.
A lack of ground will keep the plugs from sparking; if they are sparking that is not the problem. Any chance that in doing all this work you messed up the order of the plug wires? Knocked loose the wire from the coil to the ignition system? Messed up the plug on the coil wire to the distributor cap?
The only other thing that might be an issue is the compression. Depending on what ran through the engine, you might have screwed up the seal of the rings against the cylinder walls. If you have a compression gauge you might want to do a quick check. I can't imagine this would be enough of an issue to cause it not to fire with ether, though....
You obviously know your way around an engine. Just go back to the basics you already know and take it step by step.
Good luck with this. Please post again and tell us what the problem was.
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