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Offline POPS

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BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« on: January 13, 2015, 11:04:19 AM »
WHAT YOU HAVE WITHOUT A POTASH PLANT!
DAKAR RACE, 2 DAYS AGO, ACROSS THE BOLIVA SALT FLATS. THIS RACE GOES ON FOR DAYS. CHECK OUT race-dezert.com IF YOUR CRUZIN THE WEB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTYDsKI-e2A#t=15
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Re: BOLIVA SALT FLATS
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2015, 11:45:14 AM »
SORRY "BOLIVIA"



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Re: BOLIVA SALT FLATS
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2015, 12:00:29 PM »
Nature, without a dick shoved up it's a$$!
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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2015, 03:17:56 PM »
It sure looks impressive. I did a Google Earth quick measurement and it is about 75 miles across the longest way and it looks like pure thick salt. To bad it is so far away and at 12000 ft+ altitude!

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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2015, 07:15:20 PM »
Quote from: Rex Schimmer on January 13, 2015, 03:17:56 PM
It sure looks impressive. I did a Google Earth quick measurement and it is about 75 miles across the longest way and it looks like pure thick salt. To bad it is so far away and at 12000 ft+ altitude!

Rex

That is what turbos are for  :-).  Mike had considered taking Ack Attack there a few years back along with Sam and Dennis.  I might be mistaken but it was going to be hard to get permission but I also am following the Dakar and noticed they got it, but that is a huge, huge event.  First time they ran across it though since they moved the Dakar from N. Africa to S. America.  Also I believe that it is also being mined,

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Offline bearingburner

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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2015, 08:13:28 PM »
I believe I once read that it is the flattest place on earth.
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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2015, 10:41:25 PM »
Quote from: bearingburner on January 13, 2015, 08:13:28 PM
I believe I once read that it is the flattest place on earth.

(since I'm in the mood to ramble and SSS is on a pedantic kick)

Levelest maybe, but not flattest.
Level would mean all surface points are the same distance from the magnetic center of the earth. Water would spread out evenly over it.
Flat would mean the surface followed a straight line from point A to point B, 75 miles away. Water would pool in the center but the water's surface would be level.

How's that for nit-pick'n?!!  :evil:  :-D
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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2015, 11:09:11 PM »
I get daily updates from my client whose driving a pickup in the Dakar.

He said that he thought of me while crossing the salt and they were talking
about the car I'm building. :-D
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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2015, 11:32:55 PM »
All the blown cars would run well, you'd just have a bunch of passed out crew members from lack of oxygen!
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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2015, 12:08:03 AM »
I've been watching the Dakar and was surprised to see them on the salt. Very cool! They just looked slow?
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Offline 55chevr

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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2015, 06:55:40 AM »
Altitude of Uyani salt flats is 12,000 feet. Bonneville is 4300 and that air is thin. 
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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2015, 09:04:31 AM »
   Look at it this way, the crew chief's beer bill would be real small there.  :-D

    Doug  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #12 on: January 29, 2015, 04:24:58 PM »
really guys you are comparing the Bonnevill flats to Bolivia, Nice.
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Re: BOLIVIA SALT FLATS
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2015, 06:09:39 PM »
why would one go thru the hassel and pain of getting, let alone running there,  :dhorse:,,,, when for less hassel thay could go to "Gairdner" and "blow" the motor on 100miles of dry hard salt at sea level, :cheers:
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