318 Wont start unless I jump out the ballast resistor.

So now new coil, new wires, new cap and rotor, No luck!

It will fire or spark once and then nothing, not even with the jumper.

The ballast resistor gets hot, is this normal? My coil also gets warm.

The car is new to me and my first mopar, Before that I was a Toyota guy.....

Thanks again.
no sparky now eh? shouldn't be running that ballast bypassed for any length of time lol. ballasts get hot.. so do coils.. normal.
give your points/condensor another "once over" so you can get back to the original problem.