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Subject: [Healeys] high altitude driving
From: glemon at neb.rr.com (glemon at neb.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:19:28 -0500
To fight loss of power at altitude in wwII aircraft they started supercharging 
them.  Sounds like a good excuse to look into a blower.

Know a lot of the MGs and Triumphs and VWs and such used aftermarket 
superchargers back in the day never heard of such in big healeys, no room? Or?

Greg Lemon

---- Martin Jansen <jule_enterprisesah at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> When I attended Breckenridge, my Healey did not like the altitude so I stopped
> in at a local service center and asked the mechanic there what they did to
> adjust to the altitude He suggested we adjust the timing 2 degrees for every
> 1000 feet. I believe Breckenridge was about 10,000 feet. I set it at 20 degree
> advance. Since we were constantly at that elevation the car ran fine. He said
> when we got to a  lower elevation to return to normal settings. This worked
> great for me.
> Happy Healeying,   Marty  www.jule-enterprises.com
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