[joemosfet]

Originally Posted by Sledgehammer70

I know everyone else seems to get real weather... but I can't help but smile about not having snow or ice in SoCal.

Smile about another thing: sea-level density altitude.

At the track here, we get over 9000' DA in the summer. I can't even post my time slip without getting clowned on.

When I bought the '14 Camaro, I mentioned that it needed something to give me the seat-of-the-pants feel that I had in the Charger. I said my blown Charger did a 13.8 quarter mile at altitude after the mods. Big mistake.

People said my Charger wasn't put together right, or that the supercharger whine was making me think it was fast, and that my new stock SS Camaro will beat that by a whole second.

So I posted a video of a Camaro SS at Bandimere putting down 14.98. Then it was "that guy can't drive, are you kidding me? The Camaro way faster than that..." So I posted another video, showing the similar numbers. Finally, somebody else posted links to density altitude calculators, and so on, and finally people shut up, but dang.

Imagine having a stock vehicle, run it down the track, and being in the 15s club instead of the 12s club with the other stock guys.

Ah well. The altitude allows us to run more boost and/or more timing and/or less octane.