Coils to a racer with Kong Jackson

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3W Hank

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I had has some combos.. to my 32 5W but the lates version is a ported race 41 Merc block and a 1/8 stroked 3.75" crank with the 21A rods and a 40's race inline x4 intake from Multi in Burbank and for 97 or LZ, and the distributor will be a Kong Jackson.
But on coils to this, what are the cool choices and at the era 46-48 style.
 

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Early ones (?) but when was they on production ?
I seen the brown ones, was they even more early.
I don’t know when Kong had this distributors out, but what did the guy used 46-49 ?
 
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has the early Bear, and thhad has Mallory 5000 or Master
 

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Has Kong is not a great distributor for the street, with the manual advance adj. Have you looked at the W&H or the Harmon Collins
 
I has the Kurten V12 Lincoln, but I like the Kong history. A friend here in Sweden had his Kong on a 29 roadster and a race Potwin cam on street and went all over, no problem.
But things feels diffirent for each people ofcourse.
He said he used a wire and started lower ignition and then he put it out full.
He has a test bench so he showed me the marks and still has the Kong but roadster is sold.
 
Terry,OH.

The one I showed is to be told brown, but it look black.
The one you show, is it for sale ?
Is that brown or black.
Any idea of what era ?
I might need one (1) if I bought the one I showed.
 
Some photos of 50 to early 60 coils the bear I believe is earlier. I didn't have a great photo of the bear. most are black in color. Was help to have instructions for the old coils.
 

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49 Bell Auto catalog both V12 Lincoln and Kong and DSM and Mallory coils.
The one I has here is dark brown but I seen black, but in catalog its hard to say or one wonder when Mallory swithed colour.
 

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I have a Kong distributor that is missing its cap. The caps cost as much as the distributors do if you can even find a cap. They only made those distributors that used that cap for one year. I had a stroke, so I don't remember if they were Cad's or Lincolns (1932?) but because it was a one-year only V8 they only sold about 400 cars that year. Most of the Kong distributors I see for sale have broken caps so that means they are probably made from that fragile Bakelite. I was friends with Kong and I asked him why in the hell did you use a cap from a car they only made 400 of, he laughed and said, "I don't know, it just happened to fit. It wasn't' a problem to get those caps in the late 1940s." Besides the Ford V8 there much of a selection of V8 caps back then.

Somebody could probably reproduce the caps, but I doubt there would be an enough demand for anybody to bother. They were the very best distributers, if you could afford one. They were big bucks and only the most serious dry lakes and drag racers used them. I copied Kongs photos that he had done for either advertising or a magazine article on that distributer when he first developed it, but as far as I know the photos were never used. Really nice photos. He was a really neat guy, no secrets, an open book about anything you were interested in. That was the reason I wanted a Kong distributor because we had become friends. I'll probably end up having to buy a complete one just to get the cap and then I'll always be afraid of breaking it. I forgot to ask him what he used for the points.
 
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I have a Kong distributor that is missing its cap. The caps cost as much as the distributors do if you can even find a cap. They only made those distributors that used that cap for one year. I had a stroke, so I don't remember if they were Cad's or Lincolns (1932?) but because it was a one-year only V8 they only sold about 400 cars that year. Most of the Kong distributors I see for sale have broken caps so that means they are probably made from that fragile Bakelite. I was friends with Kong and I asked him why in the hell did you use a cap from a car they only made 400 of, he laughed and said, "I don't know, it just happened to fit. It wasn't' a problem to get those caps in the late 1940s." Besides the Ford V8 there much of a selection of V8 caps back then.

Somebody could probably reproduce the caps, but I doubt there would be an enough demand for anybody to bother. They were the very best distributers, if you could afford one. They were big bucks and only the most serious dry lakes and drag racers used them. I copied Kongs photos that he had done for either advertising or a magazine article on that distributer when he first developed it, but as far as I know the photos were never used. Really nice photos. He was a really neat guy, no secrets, an open book about anything you were interested in. That was the reason I wanted a Kong distributor because we had become friends. I'll probably end up having to buy a complete one just to get the cap and then I'll always be afraid of breaking it. I forgot to ask him what he used for the points.
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25 years ago i had a complete Kong Ignition, with both coils, that i bought from an estate. I called Kong, and he was able to tell me my distributor was from 1950, and both coils were from an 8BA flathead'

The distributor caps were from a 1932 Lincoln, and were super hard to find. I ended up selling it because of the cap.
 
I have an earlier Kong with - luckily - mint caps. My plan, should it ever be run on an engine, is to mate it with a pair of NOS Holley "Master" coils as shown previously.
 
Question.
This Mallory or Master by Holley, was they black or is it from pictures, but the one I seen is more brown.
 
The 'brown' Mallory ( but look black on many pictuters ) is atleast 40's and was sold 49 as the DSM ( #1022 )
Both seems be Mallory.
I like the look of the DSM.
Any era information when this coils was sold or 'replaced'.
If anyone has 2 working DSM contact me.
Don't need be NOS, but tested working.
 
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