Need Some Help About Flame Throwers!!!!!

Hey out there,
I need some help about flame throwers on my truck. I want to use the old school way with the manual choke, but what type of coils do i use to get a consistent spark? Basically where i can flip a switch and get continuance spark without having to flip the switch back and forth like crazy. I got some 12 volt coils now and the spark is really weak and to get a decent spark i have to flip the switch back and forth like crazy. Do i use a higher end coil like msd or flame thrower or someone told me model t ford coils?? The other thing is what gauge wire is good idea to use to run to the coils to the switch to the battery?? And am i wiring it right?? Cause right now i am using 16 gauge wire with two separate wires to each coil to the toggle switch and got one wire to a fuse to the battery. Any help would be great i also live in illinois and if there is anyone in the chicagoland area that i could call or talk to about this that would really help me out. Because i really want to have them on my truck this summer.
Thanks a lot for anyone's help

 

If you want to do it like grand dad did it go with the T Model coils like you were told. But if you don't like making things hard on yourself man the kits are cheap and easy.

That said, (I can't believe I'm admitting this on an open forum) I've built a couple doohickeys that worked pretty well. Now this has been many years ago so my memory on the details is a little foggy but what I used the first time was just 2 junk yard coils, 2 junk yard heater fan motors, 2 sets of points and 2 pieces of round wood dowel drilled, (off center) to fit the shaft on the motors. I'm sure it isn't too hard to imagine how it all went together. That worked okay but I wanted more.

My next effort was somewhat more ambitious. I took another fan motor and mated it to the shaft of a GM HEI distributor. I mounted it all in a long metal box I found somewhere and wired it up. I think I used 10 ga. to feed the dist. and a separate 10 ga to feed the motor. I made the plug wires out of the longest plug wires I could find at the junk yard. Now I had 4 plugs per tail pipe all buzzing like mad at the flip of a switch. Pull the choke and FOOOM! I melted the tail lights out of that old '63 Impala a couple of times before I got the hang of it. I don't know how many times I blew the mufflers off it, lol.

The thing you need to think about though is, do you really want to have all that raw gas pumping through your engine. It is going to wash the oil right off the cylinder walls while you’re trying to keep the engine running with the choke pulled out to keep feeding the flames. As I understand it, the electronic kits have solved the problem by killing one cylinder at a time in rapid succession. Therefore providing some raw gas to the tail pipe while not washing out any cylinder walls or fouling any plugs. I think most guys’ run a propane with the kits too.

The above is meant only to informe you of my past expieriance and is in no way meant as advice or instruction. I am in no way incouraing you to do anything that could be harmful to yourself or others. Please, what ever you do, use good judgement. Make sure you don't have any gas leeks, transmission fluid leeks etc. Have fun and don't burn youself down.