I have been doing some electrical work on my '77 Civic 1200. During the past couple of days, after replacing the ignition coil and ballast resistor, each time I try to start the car I experience electrical current passing through the ignition cylinder. As you can imagine, pretty shocking (no pun intended). I have also replaced the voltage regulator with one of the spares I have lying around. Could this be the culprit? Anyhow, I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what I could have possibly done that could cause this and have not been able to procure an answer. Any suggestions?

-sd_77civic