At 09:24 AM 10/5/02 -0400, you wrote:
>My testing of my Dakota this past summer has yielded a few questions, just
>how much does the altitude of a dragstrip have an effect on the way a car or
>truck will actually perform? Say given that the weather and track conditions
>of 2 different tracks were the same, but the track with a altitude closer
>to sea
>level would enable said car or truck to ET better due to better air quality.
>Is there a correction factor that would give some idea how a car or truck
>would
>perform at a lower sea level?...........or am I just nut's thinking the Dakota
>would run better a lower level track? Ron- '01 Dakota Sport 3.9
>Supercharged
Here's the NHRA correction table for altitude (starts at 1200' and goes up):
http://www.prestage.com/carmath/NHRA_Correction_Factors.asp
ticats
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