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Just about done, not sure if the red cam cover and orange air filter cover go together. May end up running the brushed alloy cam cover instead, will see what it looks like in the car.

The more I think about it, the more I believe that emissions standards, with lean mixtures with retarded timing, forced some manufacturers to pull the spark plug tip out of the most efficient area for ignition and closer to the combustion chamber wall where the mixture burns cooler. Ground and center Electrode tip materials back in the day may not have been able to handle the heat. Pulling the electrode tip to a cooler location in the combustion chamber may have been a temporary solution in the transitional periods between Catalytic convertor development and the new Fuel injection systems. These weren't perfected over night by any means.

yeah, a wheel on a grinder is the way to go - get some red and white polishing rouge (red for taking the surface smooth, white for the color/shine) and there'll have no end to the fun you'll have making things shiny! suddenly the ice cream scoop, that old belt buckle, the cheese slicer all become jewelry