Used to see these in sprint and super modifieds as late as the early sixties. 
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Every Spark Sets off a Cyclone: Inside the 1931-53 Buick Straight Eight
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Bob Riebe
, Jul 10 2021 19:20
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Bob Riebe
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Posted 10 July 2021 - 19:20
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Magoo
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Posted 11 July 2021 - 18:08
One interesting item I didn't have room to include: The Fireball combustion chamber used a contoured piston crown that looked a great deal like a GDI piston of today. Totally different situation that obtained a similar looking result.
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Posted 12 July 2021 - 04:23
nice compact combustion chamber with high swirl but poor gas flow
Edited by malbear, 12 July 2021 - 04:26.
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Magoo
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Posted 13 July 2021 - 12:52
Somehow, I never made the mental connection between the Buick Fireball combustion chamber and the Michael May development of the same name.
To me, while the Buick Fireball chamber is a real thing, if you will, with a special piston design and so forth, I always thought of it as marketing palaver as much as anything.
