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Originally Posted by 97 SL320
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.
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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.