Hey guys, new here.

I have a 1980 camaro with a 350 that broke down on me the other day, when I finally got a chance to check it out I found this:







So I replaced the coil, started it up, and it was running really rough. The tach was all over the place and it kept misfiring. I started it again and walked up to the hood and heard a small buzzing sound that reminded me of electricity. I shut off the engine and took off the dust cover for the distributor coil, started it back up and sure enough it was arcing like mad. Mostly concentrated around the terminals, but some of it seemed to be coming from the 'coil tower' (I think I've heard it called).

My next attempt was giving the terminals a nice smattering of dielectric grease, but it didn't work. Then I cleaned all the contacts in the cap, which did nothing. I measured the resistance of the wires from the spark plug end to the contact inside the cap but everything seemed normal. So I replaced the cap and rotor. Which still didn't help. Next I replaced the ignition control module, which, surprise, didn't work.

I would very much appreciate any advice you can give me. Thanks for reading.