Actually, I don't think there is anything wrong with the way my WBX vanagon is running, merely that by the time you figure in the weight of the Syncro and camping gear, I am hauling a lot more weight up those hills. And while the Digifant is a fiendishly clever system which, I'm sure, does adjust the mixture properly for altitude, it can't make up for the change in air density and the resultant power loss. The fringe benefit of higher altitude is the reduction in air resistance at speed, but hills are still hills. The only substitute for cubic inches that I know of is some kind of a blower -- unless it is to switch to a lighter version of the vanagon -- which I'm considering. Bob |
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