Hei conversion troubleshooting

So here's the update. Charging issue is fixed, replaced several grounds to VR, battery, block and firewall. Shows 13ish at idle and 15ish under load.

So while trying to figure out rotor phasing with my see-thru cap, I noticed that the gap from the rotor to the contacts seemed really far... took the cap off (new, brass came with the r. ehrenberg distributor) and measured and there was a 0.10" gap laterally to the cap contact and 0.15" vertically. I thought, wow that seems really far for the spark to have to jump. Measured my old (the one I cut up) cap and rotor, and determined that the cap specs are identical, but the new rotor is 0.060" shorter than the old one, and about 0.050 lower! For some reason, the contact on the end was drilled in the wrong spot or is for a different distributor. I put my old rotor in with the new cap, and the car ran noticeably better, although still having the problem. With the old rotor and new cap, the gap is now about 0.040" laterally and 0.10" vertical.

As the poor running condition/intermittent spark still persists, and I'm almost certain the distributor mechanical advance weights and reluctor phasing are jacked up. Waiting on a recurved distributor from Ray (Halifaxhops) to hopefully put this problem to bed once and for all.