Listers,
This is from a friend of mine who's not on the list. Anyone have experience
in this area?
Gerard
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>Gerard,
> Last weekend, I decided to get out of town for a few days to go on
>a road/ backpacking trip in my midget through Yosemite National Park.
>To make this trip bearable, I first had to put a few modest upgrades on
>my car. One of these was the installation of a new 40 Watt x 4 channel
>detachablr face CD player. The other was the installation of my factory
>style Spridget luggage rack. Any way the trip went great except for one
>thing, my car suffered from "Altitude Sickness".
> The entrance to Yosemite is roughly 4300 feet, which is where I
>started having problems. We actually drove up to 9000 feet but the
>symptoms got worse. The problems I was having was lack of acceleration,
>and fever. I figured that the two problems were related and caused by
>the lack of air, and the steep terain I was driving in. The altitude
>sent my air fuel mixture way out of wack, and the load on my engine
>climbing those peaks made my temperature guage soar. Is there anything
>I could do in the future to avoid this problem?
>
>
>
>John Christ
>
>farlex@pacbell.net
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