..or we could say cylinder bore was drilled by drunk engineer and it works quite well but that sounds bad from a marketing point of view :lol:
I think timing 0 would have to be -2 degrees from parallel. That's when piston is at highest point in bore and conrod/crank arm is straight (TDC), although BDC would then be 182 ATDC. As you say.....any other arrangement would surely make things overly complex.