[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by Vid

On the other hand, when we who live up near Tahoe/Reno drive our carbureted cars down to Sacramento and the Bay Area, wow do they come to life! Too bad they don’t sell THAT in a bottle.


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Yep. It's easy to get complacent with the car at high elevation only to have it surprise you when you jump on the gas at sea level.

Just for giggles if anyone wants to put numbers to it, you lose roughly about 3% power for every 1000 feet in elevation.

So a typical 500hp street car at sea level will only make about 425hp at 5000 feet elevation.

Hence the reason correction factors exist.