What the hell causes this?!? (Pistons dimples)
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I would hazard to guess that it was a centering tool used to mark those reliefs out in the piston. You just took these out and found this or this is the first time they have been in the car?
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Looks to me like the tool used to cut the valve reliefs had a small pointed end sticking down and they went just a little bit too far when they were cutting the piston for PTV clearance. If you look at the second and third pictires, you can see that the dimple is on the same angle as the valve relief.
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I guess my question is - did you or the machine shop flycut? Or did you buy them with the valve reliefs in them? They look like they were purchased with the reliefs. If that's the case, it still looks like a QC issue. If it was done at the machine shop, they did nice work on the reliefs, except for the punch marks.