The fuel injection system with it's computer and various sensors will
automatically adjust fuel mixture to accomodate the change in air
density resulting from the change in altitude. Carburetors are a bit
more limited, and if the limited mixture adjustments available don't do
the trick, changing the jets in the carburetor is the only other
solution, short of turbocharging the engine.

I drove from Birmingham, AL which is only a few hundred feet above sea
level, to Los Alamos, and Taos, New Mexico, and spent a year there.
Elevations over 7,500 feet and the old 88 GL had not a single problem
related to fuel mixture and power. It was a good year, until the return
trip, when the engine blew in Clinton, OK, of all places. But that is
another story.

Have a good journey.!

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Debbie Walters wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>I'll be driving Gypsy cross country from Florida to Montana next summer, and
>just learned from somebody that when they took a trip in the '70's into
>altitude they had problems with their car until somebody told them to take
>out the airfilter.
>
>Should I expect to have problems when we hit the mountains, and will taking
>out the air filter do the trick?  Or is there anything I should add/do to
>Gypsy now in preparation for the altitude?
>
>Thanks,
>
>deb
>'85 Westy "Gypsy"
>Orlando
>
>
>