Dave & list,
At the dry lakes Les Leggitt brings a gas trailer similar to the one you see
at Bonneville with a selection of ERC products. At the beginning of the meet
I take a sample of the 110 octane to use as a baseline gas. The entrants are
not required to use the ERC gas but, because it is available on the lakebed
this is what we use.
When a gas class vehicle comes to impound a sample is taken from the tank
and tested against the baseline with the dielectric tester. If the tank
sample exceeds +/- 5 on the dial of the tester the gas is not approved. I
have never seen a legal gas test at +/- 6 or so, the additives in the gas
that allow a better burn rate will peg the meter to either the + or - side.
Now the question is - why are there no other vendors available? I believe it
is a matter of business. There is absolutly no money to be made at the
lakebed. ERC supplies the gas as a service, incurring monetary losses at
each event. Other vendors who have come to the lakebed to supply the racers
have found that there is no profit to be made. The expenses involved far
exceed potential income. Vendors such as VP have tried to come on board at
the lakebed with an eye on becoming the vendor at Bonneville but have faded
almost as quick as they arrive.
Rick Gold and his staff at ERC have stood by the SCTA-BNI for several years
and we find this to be a good relationship for both the association and the
racer.
DW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
To: "Dan Warner" <dwarner@electrorent.com>
Cc: "land speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: varity of classes
> Geez don't start on the gas deal even I am not silly enough for that
> discussion..LOL
> But it begs the question is Bonneville the only place that there is a
track gas
> within SCTA ?? I have only been to Bonneville so have no clue about the
lakes.
> Dave Dahlgren
>
> Dan Warner wrote:
> >
> > Those classes are precious. I can't imagine
> > eliminating them or any others simply to save a single line in the
records
> > book.
> > *******************************
> >
> > Dan & list,
> >
> > My point exactly!!
> >
> > There are classes with existing records with no entries - build and race
> > there. No need to add to the database when no interest exist for what is
> > currently available.
> >
> > Another example is the discussion I had at the lakebed last Sunday. The
guy I
> > was talking with said he was not going to conform to the "event gas"
rule
> > because ERC did not have the octane rating he wanted to use. When I told
him
> > that he could not record in that manner he insisted that he would take
the
> > SCTA-BNI to court. I asked him if he had spoken to Rick at ERC about his
> > products, he said no he had not. The point here is should the procedure
be
> > changed for one person when it has worked well for several years?
> >
> > DW
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