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Old 08-21-2008, 04:16 PM
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Default Horsepower vs altitude
I took the Willys out for a few runs with my performance meter. The horsepower numbers were pretty low. I found the calculator for horsepower vs altitude, turns out at 7000' you only have about 76% of your sea level HP. Here is the link to the calculator:
http://www.slowgt.com/Calc2.htm#BasAltCal
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