Dry Lakes Racers Australia

Doc, I think your idea is great, shame I don't have a hoist. I don't even have a shed, both my cars are out in the weather. Lucky they're already junk. My wife is so, so impressed! I'll work out some way of getting under it to accurately measure up for a frame for the pan. Maybe I'll build the trail...

Bob, at this stage I think I'm available for 18 and/or 19 August, so put me down as a probable for at least one day. And Chris, what are the chances of showing a group of us the WPS/WOW workshop sometime? I didn't go to QR today because I'm saving up for the bits I'll need for my car. Yes, I'm final...

Doc, I should have read your posting more carefully, my linkage idea was completely irrelevant. Maybe someone else will find it useful. I can't remember seeing the cable setup on your landracing photos so I'm guessing again. If your gantry idea is inducing inconsistent and/or lost movement maybe you...

Hey Doc, tell us more about your gearbox and linkage hassles, maybe someone can help. What sort of gearbox is it, does it have a shifter on top or are the linkages on the side or what? What setup do you currently have and what do you think is wrong with it? I'll start with some unsolicited and gratu...

My guess, and it is just an educated guess based solely on everything this thread has taught us, is this: Heat is a problem, rain is a problem, floods are a disaster. So the ideal environmental conditions would be no repeats of this year's flood until April, a relatively dry and cool couple of month...

Thanks very much Wally, your wealth of knowledge is a great help to us. I'm sure all our members and the readers of this forum wish you a quick and complete recovery. So there it is, the water from below comes and goes with the ambient temperature. How much it affects the surface depends on the volu...

It would be very interesting to find out what that article is all about. Len might already have the answers to our questions. At our meeting yesterday I was told there is bore water on the property so maybe Len's water level monitors help him open and close bores to water his cattle. I'm just guessi...

Doc, your PhD idea is great and definitely worth pursuing. How do we find someone who might be interested in such a project? I suppose we could ask around whatever universities there are in S.A. (so they'd be better able to do field trips to the lake) or approach the NPWS for their help perhaps. A c...

I think we should start the design with Keith Turk's Camaro and the Phillips' new streamliner on the 2008 T shirt as a way of acknowledging their efforts in coming all that way for nothing this year. And maybe the third car/bike could be chosen from the list of whoever else made it all the way to th...

Speaking of underground water, the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) lies under most of eastern Australia, mostly Qld and NSW and, most significantly, under 38% of the area of South Australia starting at the northern borders and stretching at least as far south as the bottom of Lake Eyre. It gets quite clo...

Thanks very much for your input Dr Gwynn. I'd like to say I understood it better but I'm still wondering, especially as I haven't been to the salt to see it for myself yet. So here's a bit more quasi-scientific and entirely speculative postulation. Presumably the entire lake surface is essentially d...

I was reading the report about the ramp of dirt onto the lake that had to be removed after some complaints. That is scary stuff. The last thing we want to do is to get offside with anyone who could pressure the SA government into eventually denying us access to the lake. Even though we already do a ...

Doc, I think you've hit the nail on the head, mud on the lake wouldn't be a rare event. Every time water flowed onto the lake from anywhere else it would bring mud with it. And the salt always rises to the top again, thanks to the famous flocculation. I'm also guessing that the two feet of water in ...

Bob, a few quick questions, all dependent on the weather: Which is best for salt buildup, lots of rain or lots of dry? Is the salt likely to be much thicker by March? If it doesn't get any thicker but is hard and dry, will it be OK to race on? Will the salt get any thicker if it doesn't rain again? ...

Lynchy, you make sense, I suppose if someone did come up with a good idea for an unusual car discussing it first would be a much better idea.
Doc, even fewer understand what you're trying to say this time!! I give up, what does M.C.D.D. stand for?