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To: Red Badger

Yes airplane engines have had them for years top fuel race cars got the idea from it.


35 posted on 12/15/2025 7:32:22 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: Vaduz; Red Badger

Heh! 2 spark plugs per cylinder always makes me think of the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major used for the piston engine power for the B36 Peacemaker strategic bomber, AKA “aluminum overcast”.

That thing had 4 rows of 7 cylinders, 28 jugs! So a “tune up” involved changing 56 spark plugs on *one* engine, and there were 6 of them on the aircraft, so 336 spark plugs to be changed! Also 336 valves to check tolerances on and perhaps adjust.


45 posted on 12/15/2025 7:53:37 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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