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1 MoRe: Fuel pump... and Altitude Sickness

To: Lancer7676@aol.com, cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: 1 MoRe: Fuel pump... and Altitude Sickness
From: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:28:01 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
> And I know the O2 level in a given quantity of air
> is lower at altitude! 

Actually, it is less for a given VOLUME of air, not
mass (a pound of air  is a pound is a pound).  That's
why EFI cars do better with mass flowmeters at
altitude.  It is the density that lessens at altitude.
 density is = 2.7 * pressure (in psia) / temperature
(in dgrees rankine, which is F +460).  Lower altitude,
higher pressure, denser air.

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Ron Soave
"You Are What You Remember"
1960 Bugeye
1972 BGT

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