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Steve@Rennsport
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Dimpling, in this context, is used to promote mixture swirl and used in the "lazy" combustion chambers & piston crowns found in hemispherical chambers.

Once still sees it being used inside very highly developed engines such as Nextel Cup NASCAR powerplants.
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:11 PM
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