Banone Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 I live in Southeast Idaho. The elevation of my hometown is 4400 ft. Yesterday it was a nice sunny day with the temperature about 37 degrees. There was no one on the two-lane highway near my home and I had a stopwatch so I figured I'd try a few 0-60 runs. I held the brake once and ran the tach up to 2000 then mashed the gas and the stopwatch. I recorded a 7.99 time. Then I did one run with no preload and ran an 8.23. Needless to say I was a little disapointed after reading the times in most of the magazine test were around 7 flat. Barring the crudness of my timing procedure, is the altitude I'm at account for a full second loss for a 0-60 time? The SS is completely stock and has 3900 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadowns Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 You would have about a 10% reduction in power at that temp and altitude. CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banone Posted February 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Thanks for your response cadowns. I actually got on here to post a table I found after no response to the initial question I posted. It looks like you beat me to it by a few minutes. Anyway, here's what I found at the Turbo Regal Website. It made me feel a little better. To convert your Quarter Mile ET and MPH to sea level times, multiply applicable factor times your ET or MPH. Altitude/Elapsed Time Factor/MPH Factor 1200 /.9874/ 1.0129 1300 /.9861/ 1.0143 1400 /.9848/ 1.0157 1500 /.9835/ 1.0171 1600 /.9822/ 1.0185 1700 /.9809/ 1.0199 1800 /.9796/ 1.0213 1900 /.9783/ 1.0227 2000 /.9770/ 1.0241 2100 /.9757/ 1.0255 2200 /.9744/ 1.0269 2300 /.9731/ 1.0283 2400 /.9718/ 1.0297 2500 /.9705/ 1.0311 2600 /.9692/ 1.0325 2700 /.9679/ 1.0339 2800 /.9666/ 1.0353 2900 /.9653/ 1.0367 3000 /.9640/ 1.0381 3100 /.9627/ 1.0395 3200 /.9614/ 1.0409 3300 /.9601/ 1.0423 3400 /.9588/ 1.0437 3500 /.9575/ 1.0451 3600 /.9562/ 1.0465 3700 /.9549/ 1.0479 3800 /.9536/ 1.0493 3900 /.9523/ 1.0507 4000 /.9510/ 1.0521 4100 /.9497/ 1.0535 4200 /.9484/ 1.0549 4300 /.9471/ 1.0563 4400 /.9458/ 1.0577 4500 /.9445/ 1.0591 4600 /.9432/ 1.0605 4700 /.9419/ 1.0619 4800 /.9406/ 1.0633 4900 /.9393/ 1.0647 5000 /.9380/ 1.0661 5100 /.9367/ 1.0675 5200 /.9354/ 1.0689 5300 /.9341/ 1.0703 5400 /.9328/ 1.0717 5500 /.9315/ 1.0731 Table courtesy of Marka Gallina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
383ss Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 altitude is a HUGE difference. there is a post in the strip section about density altitude and how to factor it into your times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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