318 Engine stumble

It does pull the weights clockwise....and counter clockwise. I was wondering. The timing did advance as it should somthats not even a problem.
All that is problematic is.....it being out of phase.....and if the polarity is wrong.

Is there any way to make this thing be any sort of quality? Like putting Delco or msd parts in it to be sure of the polarity.

I started reading about the pick up coils. The whole thing is sort of confusing. I still don’t completely understand it....

What I don’t understand.....is that the pick up coil is a fixed device. Except the vaccum advance pull. If I bolt another pick up coil in there. It’s going to have the teeth in the same location. Even if I put a Delco coil in there.....Any 3 of those coils in that picture will sit in the exact same spot and be out of phase regardless of polarity. If this is the case. Then how would polarity have caused this fixed location problem. ......this car ran fine in the upper rpm. It ran well at 13° advanced.....never did backfire there when it was warm.
....it did when it was cold. I thought the choke adjustment would sort that out.. now I’m not so sure. I mean.....I could have relocated the vaccum advance and put it back In phase. Just put a bolt through the bottom of the distribitor and move it back some.


Even messed up. This distributor ran the car better than any I’ve had in there.....which was only the worn points but that’s not saying much.

Then you have polarity. For clockwise and CCW. This is a Chinese knock off. For all I know it is supposed to have a yellow plug end and they just threw a black one on there because that’s all they had. We know they wouldn’t care. I can get a compass and check it.....or just buy stuff that I know is clockwise and the phase is correct

If I were to get another one of these and put better parts in it....would it work. The only value to me is that it fits a Chrysler product and cleans up the engine bay. Everything is right there...
If I could afford to put an e curve msd on it I would. I like that I can limit it with a roll pin and take off the springs in ten seconds and tune it to where I want it.

Is there a way to make it better or should I just wait and get something else down the line? What would you recommend?