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Old 01-03-2017, 05:29 AM
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That trapped volume around the spark plug area has to be terrible for emissions. What were they trying to accomplish?

It looks like someone was trying to make a gas engine from a diesel then ran out of places to increase the chamber volume and needed to bring a spark plug into the chamber.
The M130 is basically an evolution of the M180, introduced 1951, not a diesel, but don't forget that emissions were not a big deal when this family of engines was designed.
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