coil without ballst resistor?

That's it I don't know. I doubt, unless someone has tested a number of coils that anyone really does. There never was an "old look" coil that was designed "for" the GM HEI There was a reason the older Mallory and Accel coils were huge---to put up with the large amounts of power fed to them. More modern coil design allows somewhat smaller.

the other thing is "you might be over thinking." How much HP does this engine produce, what fuel and compression, and what makes you think you need something "this special." As I pointed out earlier, a stock Mopar coil driven by a GM module, no ballast, puts out considerably more spark than the Mopar ECU. It "just might be" that most any cylindrical PERFORMANCE coil will "do ya" in good shape.

I must have missed that..you say you can run the GM module with no ballast with a stock old mopar coil without hurting it, AND it does put out better spark still? I always thought the ballast had to be used with the stock coil..? but then again, i also remember hearing that the ballast was for the ECU and not the coil, but not sure which is correct..