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Article #456Spark plug technology
From: Tom Haapanen [DCS]
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1985 14:33
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1985 14:33
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As well all know (since we read net.auto.tech, right?), a spark plug
has an end shaped something like the diagram below:
|---------------\
|-------------\ \
gap --> _____ \ \
| | \ \
| | | |
| | | |
Well, how about this design? I found one of these just last night.
Anybody seen it before?
gap
|
|
v
|----| |---------------\
| | |-------------\ \
| | \ \
| | \ \
| | | |
| | | |
Where I found this was on my new (!) 1956 Porsche 356A 1600 engine. I
was disassembling it, and pulled the spark plugs to examine them. I
took me about three looks before I actually figured out why the plugs
didn't look right. Is this what all plugs used to look like 30 years
ago or is this specifically a Porsche plug (they're made by Bosch).
\tom haapanen
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