Quote Originally Posted by smittythewelder View Post
Shoot, I knew about the SEM magneto, but forgot. Lee Sutter used to use a SEM on his FA, as I recall. He was, I believe, a buddy of Bob Rautenburg, who was a local Konig dealer in the late '50s-early 60's, and maybe that's where he got a SEM mag. The year I was particularly curious about was the start of production for the F-series twins. Also, are you telling us that a factory-stock 1956 deflector B alky Konig had megaphones? I know I've never seen a photo of the C triple of that time that shows anything but open exhaust ports . . .

I have to disagree with you about the flywheel mag. As long as you kept the points clean (and your upper crank seal was good) it worked fine at least by the standards of the day, and was simple and ran and ran, with no phenolic gear teeth to shred.
I remember as a kid going to a race on Lake Mendota or Monona in Madison W I and smelling the horrid smell from someone burning the teeth off one of those phenolic gears!