Your right about the distributor. It's from the old days. I used it since it came with the car and I thought if the cam I put in was going to produce a choppy idle, then I should use a non vacuum distributor to keep the vacuum for the power brakes. I heard that a choppy idle can produce low amounts of vacuum. I did install a pertronix pick up to get away from the points.
No I don’t have a stock distributor around to swap it out, but it's certainly something I should think about doing. The cam is a little rough, but isn't that bad at idle.
