Howdy: I'm trying to do a near-concours restoration of my car (i.e. try to stick to concours standards but deviate when performance would suffer). Toward that goal I want to use a higher performance ignition coil that looks very similar to the original Lucas Sports Coil (i.e. bare metal body with a red ceramic top). I've found one, a Mallory, but it has a warning:
"Compatible with Mallory Unilite and MBI distributors. DO NOT USE with any Mallory Hyfire electronic ignition control or any other aftermarket high energy inductive or CD ignition system. For Unilite and magnetic breakerless ignitions."
Q's:
1) I have a Pertronix system. Would a Pertronix system fall within the warning above, ie would using this coil fry my ignition?
2) If so, any idea where I can find a bare metal body/red top coil that's a high performance coil, i.e. 40K+ volts?
Many thanks,
-Tom
"Compatible with Mallory Unilite and MBI distributors. DO NOT USE with any Mallory Hyfire electronic ignition control or any other aftermarket high energy inductive or CD ignition system. For Unilite and magnetic breakerless ignitions."
Q's:
1) I have a Pertronix system. Would a Pertronix system fall within the warning above, ie would using this coil fry my ignition?
2) If so, any idea where I can find a bare metal body/red top coil that's a high performance coil, i.e. 40K+ volts?
Many thanks,
-Tom