Does your friend's car have a Weber or is it running SUs?
My understanding is that SUs are much better at coping with altitude
changes. I once ran a rally in my bugeye that took us to the top of fall's
Creek (snow resort here but that is only about 5500 - 6000 ft so it is
pretty
marginal for snow!).
I used a HIF6 carb on that event and had no problems
at all. From what I remember, a few folk using Webers reported rough running
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerard Chateauvieux <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 1999 18:12
Subject: Altitude Sickness
> Listers,
>
> This is from a friend of mine who's not on the list. Anyone have
experience
> in this area?
>
> Gerard
>
> >
> >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
>
> G G Gerard Chateauvieux
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> R R pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com
> A A
> R G Pixelsmith on Duty
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> S http://www.gerardsgarage.com
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