[67 455 Bird ragtop]

Hope this makes sense and doesn't sound stupid.

Previously when I was running an old point distributor I could connect power to the coil and dist while it was still on the engine stand. Rotate the engine so the timing mar was where I would initially like it to be when I first cranked it. Normally about 2-4 degrees retarded. Once running I would advance it to here it needed be and break in the motor. We used to call it static timing when it was on the stand. Getting ready to setup an MSD ready to run dist on my new motor with a blaster ss coil. Is this same technique possible with the newer dists?? Or doe the dist need to actually be spinning to properly work ?? Can I simply hook up the dist to the coil and apply power per the instructions then simply rotate the dist to get a spark and lock in my initial start timing ????