I've always thought of Mythbusters as pseudo scientific, they do a decent job but to much gets skipped due to time lines and budget.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out where to put the dimples on a golf ball, but where do you put them on a car? Is "everywhere" the optimum solution or do you only put them where the flow is about to separate? It's things like this that I wish they would delve into, and that is what I would consider a rigorous scientific experiment.
IMHO this is also the issue with the Flexskinz, unless they have made up an installation guide for each and every car based on wind tunnel testing, it won't work for every vehicle and would be easy to cherry pick a data point and claim x % improvement.
A round ball is a pretty far from optimal shape, but would dimpling a streamlined body (i.e., an airfoil body of revolution) have the same improvements or any improvement at all?
I would bet dollars to donuts that myself and many others on this site could use that same amount of clay and make LARGER improvements without using dimples.
Most of the LSR classes are either very restrictive on body mods like production, or are practically wide open like the streamliner classes. Just because you could use dimples doesn't make it the "best" solution.
I have to add, I didn't expect it to work!
PS I don't get hangovers, and I own a Harbor Freight ball peen hammer if needed
