Glad the 86 is slow: Keep the Dodge Demon off our roads

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Really? I was always under the impression that water that evaporated was pure. Had no idea that the salt would go up with it. Obviously not enough salt to harm vegetation though?

My understanding of it (admittedly very rudimentary) is that as it evaporates it is basically pure water. As it condensates into clouds and as it falls it does pick up contamination, including salt, dust, even radioactivity (was seen in Europe after Chernobyl).

So in coastal areas the rain can carry salt, because the salt is carried in the sea breezes that blow onto land. I could see that happening in and around Salt Lake as well.

[Shinigami301]

Those people do use road salt, y'know.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

My understanding of it (admittedly very rudimentary) is that as it evaporates it is basically pure water. As it condensates into clouds and as it falls it does pick up contamination, including salt, dust, even radioactivity (was seen in Europe after Chernobyl).

So in coastal areas the rain can carry salt, because the salt is carried in the sea breezes that blow onto land. I could see that happening in and around Salt Lake as well.

That much I knew. Don't see how it could pick up enough salt in the air to cause issues though. I have some research to do!

Originally Posted by Shinigami301

Those people do use road salt, y'know.

That makes much more sense!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

That much I knew. Don't see how it could pick up enough salt in the air to cause issues though. I have some research to do!

I was thinking acid rain...road salt does make more sense though.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I was thinking acid rain...road salt does make more sense though.

Although it still exists acid rain is no longer what we grew up with. It's reduction is one of the reasons our car paint sucks so bad now.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

That much I knew. Don't see how it could pick up enough salt in the air to cause issues though. I have some research to do!



That makes much more sense!

I'll just leave this here .......

Salt spray is largely responsible for corrosion of metallic objects near the coastline, as the salts accelerate the corrosion process in the presence of abundant atmospheric oxygen and moisture. Salts do not dissolve in air directly, but are suspended as fine particulates, or dissolved in microscopic airborne water droplets.


Acid rain is rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes. The main cause is the industrial burning of coal and other fossil fuels, the waste gases from which contain sulfur and nitrogen oxides, which combine with atmospheric water to form acids.


At least that's what Wiki told me.



humfrz

[bcj]

There's wind in SLC. Lots.
When the waves break, salty droplets get caught up in the air column.
That's mostly what the coastal areas contend with too.

edit: When it's dry, hot and windy salt crystals from the flats get blown everywhere.

I had a car that lived in Hawaii for a while before I got it. $250 worth of cosmetic rust + the rest of the car.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by gramicci101

Stupid salt lake rain. It's worse than living by the ocean, because the clouds pull the salt water up and then just sit in the valley right on top of you.

Originally Posted by humfrz

I'll just leave this here .......

Salt spray is largely responsible for corrosion of metallic objects near the coastline, as the salts accelerate the corrosion process in the presence of abundant atmospheric oxygen and moisture. Salts do not dissolve in air directly, but are suspended as fine particulates, or dissolved in microscopic airborne water droplets.


Acid rain is rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes. The main cause is the industrial burning of coal and other fossil fuels, the waste gases from which contain sulfur and nitrogen oxides, which combine with atmospheric water to form acids.


At least that's what Wiki told me.



humfrz

Originally Posted by bcj

There's wind in SLC. Lots.
When the waves break, salty droplets get caught up in the air column.
That's mostly what the coastal areas contend with too.

edit: When it's dry, hot and windy salt crystals from the flats get blown everywhere.

I had a car that lived in Hawaii for a while before I got it. $250 worth of cosmetic rust + the rest of the car.

Ya I get the whole sucked up into the atmosphere and then getting pulled back down by the rain thing. I guess it was just the way that Gram worded it that confused me for a minute.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Although it still exists acid rain is no longer what we grew up with. It's reduction is one of the reasons our car paint sucks so bad now.

Understood, I just meant the same process as acid rain for the rain to contain salt or other contaminants...

[RedFRS4me]

They shouldn't ban the car. They should ban the drivers with poor record history for speed contests, speeding, dui, etc.

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Kind of unrelated, but speaking of speed, I was reading evo magazine and the claimed 0-62 mph for the euro-spec GT86 is listed as 7.4 sec (manual, not actually timed by the magazine), while car and driver timed the US spec 86 (also manual) as 6.2 sec. Why such a huge discrepancy. No way the few less hp in the euro car are producing a 1.2 sec disadvantage lol. Is the gearing different? Or are they inept at timing?

[frsvr4]

Originally Posted by RedFRS4me

They shouldn't ban the car. They should ban the drivers with poor record history for speed contests, speeding, dui, etc.

You mean like put them in jail, confiscate their cars, suspend/revoke their licenses, jack up their insurance costs, and/or refuse to insure them?

lol @ OP... the teenager drifting his 86 through turns in a neighborhood is at least as dangerous as the rich guy doing 60-120 mph roll races on the highway in his demon.

[Existinginthedesert]

This is such a waste of space on the web.

The writer clearly has a very very very very low iq....

[TJ3000]

We should ban the Mustang from car shows. Those things have a tendency to attack crowds