I am not sure why they are made that way. They look big on a 125 head but they seem pretty normal when they are fitted to the big high pressure natural gas compressors we have been involved with. There were a few left over at work. Different pressures from the different compressor stages, 60 - 125 - 315 and 400 bar, so a few different pressure ranges to chose from.
Anyway we now know that there is not enough meat between the top of the combustion chamber and
cylinder head cover to drill and tap for a 10mm spark plug. But there is for say a 2mm dia hole and if I weld a good bung on top of the head we could put the pressure sensor there. Leaves me with the ugly side plug but still good enough to prove the idea of measuring the combustion pressure for the EFI system.
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