Thread: 100LL avgas
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Old 02-23-2018, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Davis View Post
What most don't understand is you have to add a Pitot Tube to actually measure how much better the car runs on AV gas. If you also add a Altimeter and reset 0 at +2500ft you should not have any problems because the car thinks it's at 2500 feet instead of sea level.
No, no, no. Set it to like -1000 feet and you will pick up some serious HP from the denser air.


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