Date:         Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:04:00 -0600
Reply-To:     "Richard A. Jones" <jones@COYOTE.COLORADO.EDU>
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From:         "Richard A. Jones" <jones@COYOTE.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mileage at altitude
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>>>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