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I read that these grooves can cause heads to crack.
It doesn't do much good if they work but cause your cylinder head to crack after 50,000 miles.
Unless you could keep your engine combustion chamber almost perfectly clean or at least very clean these grooves would likely cake up with soot. So unless you are running water injection any gains will be lost over time, rather quickly.
If these grooves were so effective then why haven't the OEMs picked up on it?
Apperantly Mercedes tried them at least for a little while and only used them once in production.
Pre-combustion chambers in general tend to be pretty cracktastic I would be hesitant to add more potential crack starting points.
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