Thread: melted distributor? please help!!!!

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Hey guys, what's up? my names josh and i'm new to forums so bear with me here. I've got a 1984 Chevy Caprice Classic wagon with a 305 4-barrel with the 200-4r. I love box caprices and station wagons so it was only natural that i buy this one when it was for sale for only four hundred dollars. when i first got it i did the usual stuff to a car that has been sitting for four years. i.e. plugs, wires, cap, rotor, coil, oil, coolant flush, pads, rotors, drums, shoes, rear wheel cylinders. took her out for a spin, come to find out shes got no power. idles fine, cruising ok, just no balls. look under the hood and come to find out while it was sitting rats had gotten in there and chewed through the computer control wires for the timing advance. i decided i wanted to give her more power any ways so i went ahead and converted it to vacuum advance. put a new edelbrock performer intake, and 600 carb on it along with one of the forty dollar ebay distributors. i set the timing and idle screws to their proper settings, and for some reason it ran like complete ass. no matter how many times i re-stabbed the distributor and re-ran the plug wires and made sure it was at number one t.d.c. it still ran like crap. so i decided to try one more time about a week ago and i find the cap, rotor, and coil are melted. i dont know what would cause this and a mechanic buddy of mine said he had never seen it before and none of my friends know what it could be. any help would be greatly appreciated.