I don't like washers, especially on tapered seat plugs. Both side gap and indexing make HP, and allow less total timing, reducing detonation, and doing less "negative work" (firing of the sparkplug is BEFORE TDC on the COMPRESSION stroke) the expanding flame kernel is fighting the piston as it is compressing the fuel/air mixture. The more efficient the combustion chamber is, and the better the hominization of the air/fuel mixture is, the less timing is required, and the more H.P. the engine will make.
I did a N/A 360 Dodge competition engine a while back, using every chamber trick I know, and it only liked about 15 to 18 degrees total timing for max power!
Their chamber design typically likes about 36 degrees timing.
This stuff works!!!
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