Technical Mag on flathead 59a

so I am scheduled to pick this little flatty up Saturday and was curious to know a bit more about these angle drive mags? Good for street use? Pros and cons? I personally have never seen one.

 

I've run a mag on the street(in a flatmotor) and they work great...I don't know why that one wouldn't be the same unless the advance is locked down...

 

Nice ,that engine looks like its got some good surprises,i like the idler pulley setup, and the spark arrester air cleaners,Three carbs.....,could be a big cube engine?I,llll follow this as i have the same magneto setup but haven't run it yet on an engine,incase theres some good setup tips Johnny

 

I'm kinda excited to pick it up and give it a whirl. We'll see how it runs as is

 

heres mine

 

nice...those look like fun...

 

I have three, one that works best is locked at 20 degrees. That motor looks like a nice find.

 

does the mag being locked hurt the low end performance, or are you splitting the difference? I've never run one like that on the street...just curious.

 

Low end performance suffers more from the 400jr cam and the three 97's than the mag being locked.

 

Thank you. Yea I'm pretty pumped on it. We'll see how it turns out.

 

Well decided to do a minor tear down of the engine to clean, inspect all surfaces, replace gaskets etc..come to find out it's a pretty well built "keystone" ford flathead(41 merc)
Contemplating on running the 81's that I had laying around the garage or 97's that came with the flatty. Either way, I'm rebuilding all the carbs and also sent the scintilla magneto off to a gentleman named Spud to have rebuilt

 

Almost ready...