{"id":781,"date":"2016-08-23T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T22:50:02","slug":"hello-from-the-land-of-salt-and-speed-bonneville-salt-flats-postscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Hello from the Land of Salt and Speed (Bonneville Salt Flats) \u2013 Postscript"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHello from the Land of Salt and Speed (Bonneville Salt Flats) – Postscript\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTuesday evening – August 23, 2016   (third post of this travelogue)\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the years, I have worked with a team that has a goal of a speed of 550mph.  Their website details incredible quality of construction  and complexity of the vehicle:  site link<\/a>.  They use Gates PolyChain belts to drive the two blowers and three specially designed belt drives that connect the two engines\/transmissions to the drive axles.  Marlo Treit (owner) and Les Davenport (tuner\/driver) offered their typical hospitality.  While they worked on a broken transmission output shaft, I was able to check one set of drive belts.  They designed drive housings that fully support the belts and avoid some issues that could have cropped up.  I feel proud to be a part of that design.  Marlo signed a picture for me (see attached) and gave me a team tea shirt.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Treit<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThis was the first year the car has been on the salt and they are doing some shakedown runs.  That said, they ran 385 on their last run.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThey had to work on the car for the first three days of the event.  As a result they made their first run on Tuesday.  We had planned to leave on Tuesday morning, but I decided to see if I could observe their run.  Fortunately they made a run in the late morning and I got to witness the run from their pit (about the 4 mile mark).  It was a real thrill to finally see the car run.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWe departed our campsite around one and decided to drive as far as possible – planning a three day trip.  The bus is pretty easy\/comfortable to drive, so it was no problem to make it half way home on Tuesday .  We parked in the back of a service station in Green River, UT.  Wednesday we drove the rest of the way home. \n<\/p>\n

\n\tThat is all for this trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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