Are you sure the coil is wired properly?
They can run wired backwards, they're just a pain to start, idle ok, and dog out at higher rpm's.
The half sized gap means either you've got weak fire or you're running some sort of charger (super/turbo) :).
Regarding the needles, pulling them out...
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