Hmmm, they might yeah. What good they'd do for a motor that wasn't running, I don't know.

Absolutely Honda knew what they were doing and those shapes must do something - swirl chambers perhaps? Pressure traps? Joke machining to confuse owners 20 years after manufacture?
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