[s-cars] RE: 402.4 AWHP NCFS...

[Djdawson2 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 6/16/2003 11:32:15 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
pizzoman at yahoo.com writes:

> but when you go further up to CO
> S-car mafia levels, I hear you may lose some oomph,
> but I have no btdt, but at 1k ft and 2k ft, my car
> feels faster, at least from the seat of my olive oil
> laden Ecru Recaro.
>

I can validate the loss in oomph at altitude, as I recently had my CO car
down to sea level.  I also took the G-Tech along for the ride.  HP increases at
sea level were in the 15% range, and the 1/4 mile time dropped by .6 seconds.
I wouldn't necessarily qualify G-Tech readings as empirical, but a change that
significant does (at least in my mind) indicate a significant loss due to
altitude.  The other very notable change was in turbo response.  My car has a RS2
turbo and EM, and here in CO seems to "come on" at about 3200rpm.  At sea
level it was producing a hit at about 2300rpm.
Just some general comments....
Dave in CO