If there is a trend on the salt it is the very obvious rise in popularity of the LS out here.
You’ll see a Model T engine which wears a Gibson OHV conversion cylinder head and a header with primary tubes large enough to exhaust a pro stock engine and some LS engines as well. From the nitro burning hemi in the nose of Les Legget’s Studebaker known as The Beast to the tiny little 48ci Crosley engine wearing its Weber side draft carb in the nose of a classic Crosley, the ways to make horsepower here are endless. This gallery of engine photos has some really interesting stuff in it. And while some left, the vast majority have stayed and that gave us plenty of fodder to look at and inspect in the pits. Many racers have departed the salt, no doubt disappointed that mother nature took from them their window to compete. Meaning, more water coming from the Silver Island Mountains.(Photos by the author) – An interesting day on the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday as Chad and I strolled the pits and chatted with racers who are about ready to chew through a leather belt and get on the course after days of waiting. Keach believes that groundwater is the key to increasing the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats. “They’ve been doing this historically for a long time.” “You can go into Google Earth and look, in an ad hoc way, and look at the last thirty years, or forty years of imagery across the salt flat … and you see the salt flat expand and contract,” Keach said. The idea is to add more water to the surface, which leads to evaporation, and more salt “growing.”īut Keach said a more scientific approach is needed that directs how much water to lay down, and when to lay it down. Keach said that projects have been proposed that would manually pump salt water from beneath the flats to the surface of the flats. Reversing the shrinking Bonneville Salt Flats? So how are the two related? As the Great Salt Lake decreases, and the thickness of the flats decreases, the racing distance gets shorter. And the surface, which isn’t 100% dry, keeps tire temperatures down at high speeds.
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