OddFella wrote:
I get ya. I guess there's no easy way around your situation with those drastic changes in elevation. So do you tune for the high altitude, sea level, or somewhere in between? If at some point you're lean, can you just pull the choke out a bit to compensate? Do you run EGT gauges on any of them?
That sounds like some awesome terrain btw -- and definitely not the kind of place where you want to blow an
Engine and have to tow. We don't have anything like that like here in Pennsylvania. I'd love to check out where you ride on Google Earth.
So are your engines worked over? 34hp at the wheels is more than stock, right? What do you think stock WHP is?
1) I jet for the top. The reason is that most of our riding here is up high.
2) Do you run EGT gauges on any of them? ---- I am NOT a fan of gauges. I have several reasons. 1)There is no issue with putting a EGT gauge on a machine for tuning but after that it's a no fn good. I used to race formula cars and GT3 cars in SCCA. There was NO fn time to look at gauges. All you are going to do is crash your car or buggy. Keep your head up and both hands on the wheel unless you are shifting. 2) By the time you do notice the exhaust temp go crazy it's to late. Unless of course you are staring at it all the time. Then reason 1 above comes into play. 3) I had put a EGT on my brothers machine when I first bought it. Could not keep this Engine together. My brother said he was staring right at the gauge when it melted the piston and he said the gauge never went over 1200'F. It was a brand new gauge and sensor in correct position in pipe. Obviously things happen quickly. Found out this Engine was worked and we were running pump gas -- dummies.
3) 34hp at the wheels is more than stock, right? What do you think stock WHP is? --- That is the stock HP I got when I built my homemade dyno. I did a thread on it here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19665&hilit=dynoThe video of the clutch explosion I deleted from youtube but I can repost it for you if you want.
4) Google Earth Hope BC Canada.
Places we ride are Eureka mine, Caroline mine, Hunter creek, Sowaqua valley, Sourbie valley. Not sure if those names will come up on google earth but that's the names here.
Those are most of our rides because we know the fuel will last.
CO