ummm spark plug?!?!?!?

Hmmm...not sure about those. Wouldn't the carbon and crap get built up inside that tip and therefore end up with no spark eventually? Would need to see a "real" picture of one of those to try and understand things better...the break down diagram they show looks just like a standard spark plug.
 
yeah its goofy to say the least..in a way it reminds me of the "full bar" version i havnt seen in ages except in nitro rc planes where in the case of an RC it shields the hot filiment from getting blown cold
 
It appears to just be a minor modification to a surface-gap spark plug. Nothing special there; they've been around for about a century. They're popular in boats, aircraft, and Formula 1.
 
No, they're surface-gapped. There is no ground electrode, it's just the bottom of the plug...

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I ran a set of Bosch platinums in my Toyota with poor results. Better performance with standard NGKs.

69.5, there is no code or alternate number. They probably just flat-out don't make them for our applications. Generally, they're used in engines designed for such a plug, usually high-compression engines where the piston dome is an integral part of the combustion chamber, shape-wise, or two-strokes. It's kind of a shame since they're enormously hard to foul, but most engines want the spark shot into the combustion chamber, not just along side edge of it. I may be wrong, but I believe they're only truly effective in a true centered-plug situation which would mean they wouldn't even be effective in a 426 Hemi.

There's where the modified version originally posted comes into play. The surface-gap setup is extended into the chamber. However, it's hard to tell from tiny pics how well they'd resist fouling.
 
see thats where im looking at the plug for an alfa v6 hemi..the spark plug is TRUE TDC..and they are a "crash" engine if anything goes wrong.......cant help but wonnder if they would work good in the rfvc honda bike engines too......

the F1 plugs that is
 
First of all, you'd have to find a source for them. They are not available to the public at any cost, and six years ago they were $47 each to F1 teams.

Next problem: there's no way to make the F1 plugs fit unless you make an adapter and are able to find a tap to make the proprietary threads for them, which appears to be M9 x.75 at a glance. The adapter would need to be a countersunk affair, since the entire spark plug is approximately the length of the threads on a SBM spark plug. You'd also have to match the angle of the F1-only tapered seat.

Then, you'd have to find someone on an F1 team to give or sell you a spark plug socket, which is a special tool solely for this plug. No, the Snap-On guy doesn't have it, nor will anyone ever outside of F1. It would not be an easy tool to make, either.

Assuming you overcome all that, now you have the problem of plug wires. There is no tip on this plug on which to put a plug wire, nor is there enough ceramic for a boot you could possibly acquire. The end of the wire pushes inside the plug, not over it--spark-leak city without the correct wire ends.

After you overcome all that, you're ultimately left using a plug for which I'm aware there are no published specifications as to heat range, plugged into an engine that can't possibly make use of them since A) though the plug is centered, the Alfa head is nowhere near a hemispherical chamber shape--it's a pent-roof design*, and B) the pistons are not designed for a surface-gap plug of that size.

* Yes, I've seen Alfa heads, and they don't even approximate a Hemi. They're far closer to the polyspheric 318, actually, and the poly is much closer to a hemispherical chamber than the Alfa engine, as is the infamous 1.6L used in Ford Escorts in the '80s.
 
Like this?
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I had a surface gap plug in my Kawasaki dirt bike and I think they were in an old racing snomobile I used to have but I'm not sure. Really liked that plug in my bike. Hard to find though, had to get it from the states.
 

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