Beatersville Flathead Eye candy.....

[BUBBAS IGNITION]

We always attend the Beatersville Car show in Louisville Ky, the weekend of the Indy 500 . A great show with hundreds of cars,a major pinup contest, large bar with thre or four different areas to hang out and some great friends etc.
This year i rode down with my son in a off topic ( 1918 Dodge Roadster) and froze all the way down (110 miles) but had a great time.
I am doing a seminar at the Indy Road Rocket Rumble in June and took a picture of every ignition system i could see with my camera to talk about in this seminar.
Thought you guys would like to see some "flatheads- hot rods"....

Different strokes for different folks ?????

 

[Vic Piano]

Wow, I like that Lincoln Zephyr V-12... That's an interesting intake manifold with the carbs mounted in reverse... I also like the cap on the distributor with remotely mounted coils… Thanks for posting the photos.

 

[jkeesey]

The dual external coils on the v12 is a kit. The Zephyr I take care of has it. Be leery of the separator between the two pickups. The one I work with was a poor fit and had to be re-machined for a larger separator due to arching.

 

[Vic Piano]

The dual external coils on the v12 is a kit. The Zephyr I take care of has it. Be leery of the separator between the two pickups. The one I work with was a poor fit and had to be re-machined for a larger separator due to arching.

Thanks for that information. I'm still running the original coil-distributor set up on our '39 LZ but, I thought that split coil set up might be a good back up.

 

[jkeesey]

It is a good set up once repaired. The LZ I work on has dual carbs and high compression heads so he was told he would need the higher output voltage provided by the dual tube coil setup.

 

[Lawrie]

When you see all those ugly wires from the top mounted distributors,it sure makes a helmet distributor look nice.
Lawrie

 

[rrthiv]

I'm running a 4cyl. Ford Tempo distributor boot on the EAB,hides the cap...