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A Ford OEM box is pretty much "plug and play" for any engine ignition system. It's not substantially different than the wiring required for an MSD box. I used to run BOTH, with them wired in such a way that it was easy to swap "plug in connectors" to change from one box to the other. I wanted a rev limiter so the Ford box was my backup.

Ant, the model MSD dist you have will not run "stand alone", as is typical for MOST MSD dist's, they require an ignition box of some kind. A quick and easy well to tell if your MSD dist is a "ready to run" version (no box required) is by the vacuum advance. If you DON'T have a vacuum advance, it's almost certain you DON'T have a "ready to run" (stand alone) MSD dist.