Colder Temps = DAYYYYUM!!!!

[NoVaGT]

It's like the old school turbo motors. Once the 100 degree, 178% humidity goes away, this here Coyote dun woke up!!!! I've forgotten what 4KRPM to red-line is supposed to be like.

Funny, I started getting annoyed at the suspension, it wasn't feeling as planted as it should. Then I pumped the tire pressures up to 35PSI, and all the wiggle is gone. The pressures had dropped down to 29PSI with the colder temps.

And I'll be damned, but the MPGs sure have gone up too.

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[LxMike]

When I lived in Fla we'd have to wait till January for this. I moved 800 mile north and now it's October and it's getting cool already...

 

[LxMike]

Not in the US. However if you dare to widen your search I found a few for ya..

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/the-coldest-places-on-earth

 

[IrishStallion]

On E85 it is awake year round power wise. ;)

 

[LxMike]

There ya go, move to Alaska then...

 

[NoVaGT]

On E85 it is awake year round power wise. ;)

E85 isn't available in these parts, or I would probably jump on that wagon.

 

[IrishStallion]

E85 isn't available in these parts, or I would probably jump on that wagon.

My car feels faster in the heat because it hooks better. lol.

 

[ice445]

I've actually considered it. Lots of cheap land, low construction costs, and basically no building codes. I've had a dream of building my own track one day. Alaska might be where it's at.

Alaska has mosquitoes as big as your head, and a lot of them. I'll pass.

 

[Idaho2018GTPremium]

On Thursday I took the long way home and drove the very curvy back roads. My car felt strong even though DA was 4750'.
I live at ~2,600 ft altitude, and during the warm months the low DA at 6am is like 4000'+, moving up to 6000+ in the late afternoons. Now, in October, I'm excited when I see DAs under 3000 feet! Even still, afternoon DAs are 4500+. Lately, morning DAs have been around 2300-2400', and that makes me giddy considering it's a negative DA for the actual elevation. That said, I'm so used to high DAs that I don't even know what my car feels like under 500' DA. Rule of thumb is approximately 3% hp loss per 1000 feet of elevation...so I'm down anywhere from ~40-90 hp throughout most of the year. I guess it is what it is.

 

[ice445]

On Thursday I took the long way home and drove the very curvy back roads. My car felt strong even though DA was 4750'.
I live at ~2,600 ft altitude, and during the warm months the low DA at 6am is like 4000'+, moving up to 6000+ in the late afternoons. Now, in October, I'm excited when I see DAs under 3000 feet! Even still, afternoon DAs are 4500+. Lately, morning DAs have been around 2300-2400', and that makes me giddy considering it's a negative DA for the actual elevation. That said, I'm so used to high DAs that I don't even know what my car feels like under 500' DA. Rule of thumb is approximately 3% hp loss per 1000 feet of elevation...so I'm down anywhere from ~40-90 hp throughout most of the year. I guess it is what it is.

Its even worse here, our elevation is 4300ft. In summer the DA stacks to the moon, lol.

 

[Idaho2018GTPremium]

Its even worse here, our elevation is 4300ft. In summer the DA stacks to the moon, lol.

I just checked the DA at the Utah MotorSports campus in Tooele - DA of 7139' right now! Ouch. It's about 3,800' where I'm at right now.

 

[NoVaGT]

'Da faq does DA mean?

 

[ice445]

I just checked the DA at the Utah MotorSports campus in Tooele - DA of 7139' right now! Ouch. It's about 3,800' where I'm at right now.

Yeah, it blows. It has yet to actually cool down here yet other than at night.

 

[XS]

On Thursday I took the long way home and drove the very curvy back roads. My car felt strong even though DA was 4750'.
I live at ~2,600 ft altitude, and during the warm months the low DA at 6am is like 4000'+, moving up to 6000+ in the late afternoons. Now, in October, I'm excited when I see DAs under 3000 feet! Even still, afternoon DAs are 4500+. Lately, morning DAs have been around 2300-2400', and that makes me giddy considering it's a negative DA for the actual elevation. That said, I'm so used to high DAs that I don't even know what my car feels like under 500' DA. Rule of thumb is approximately 3% hp loss per 1000 feet of elevation...so I'm down anywhere from ~40-90 hp throughout most of the year. I guess it is what it is.

I know the pain. I live at 6,000 ft and God knows what the DA has been getting up to in this hot, dry, summer. Wouldn't be surprised if it was consistently over 10,000 ft in the heat of the day. This morning I left for cars and coffee and it was 51 out. Felt like DA was wayyyy down. Car ran like a bat outta hell. I'm probably going to go forced induction because I only get to feel the real oomph of the car on these rare mornings in the fall and spring.

 

[LxMike]

'Da faq does DA mean?

Density Altitude.

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