318 Running Richer w/ Carb Swap

What's your voltage at the battery at idle?
A bad alternator, charge wiring, or voltage regulator can cause excessive voltage which can then smoke certain circuits.

If you get 15+ volts at the battery, then I'd be checking the charge circuit first, then the voltage to the alternator field to rule out the alternator or regulator.

It's uncommon to have coincidental failure but it does happy. But usually it's something related to recent changes and depending on where you tapped into certain wires, it's possible the regulator isn't functioning right.
While idling I had 14.29 reading at the battery, hot side of coil and correspondingly at the hei module. But yeah 16.5+ depending on revs on the negative side is odd. Pulled my feed to the positive side of the coil right from dark blue wire that fed to the left side of the ballast resistor that is now eliminated. I feel like I'm in another issue that probably needs its own thread now lol