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Originally Posted by Brentco
It sounds like the dimples have some straightening effect, but the main purpose is to reduce wake and make the ball fly farther. That article says a golf ball with dimples will fly twice as far as one without. That’s pretty nuts. Again, no relevance to automotive applications (unless you’re dimpling your body panels like Sirrotica suggested), but still nuts.
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I used to golf a lot and I believe the dimples act as sort of high pressure- low pressure areas all over the ball. Like a airplane wing. You have it spinning which helps keep it straight due to gyroscopic/bullet effect and all the high-low pressure areas giving it lift, but in all directions.
So the ball goes farther.
Not sure what any of this has to head porting though. Hard to believe the juice is worth the squeeze.
Maybe it is, who knows ?