>>>There may be some automatic mixture adjustment built into the F/I >>>but it is probably small.... I thought altitude compensation was handled by the fact that the less-dense air moved the AFM vane less and so requested less gas to be injected. Not so? [BTW--I remember some GM info in the mid-sixties that effective power at the wheels was reduced 25% at 5000' and 50% at 10000'. Of course, this was big iron, carbs and automatics! But it has always seem roughly true in my four buses, '61, '67, '76, '81.] Richard A. Jones Boulder, Colorado '81 Vanagon Mr Bus PS: Mr Bus summits Nebraska! http://coyote.colorado.edu/jones/nebr.jpg |
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