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04-27-2008, 08:47 PM
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| Puddle Runner   Join Date: Apr 2008
Bike: 2008 VZ800/Z Black
Location: Albuquerque NM
Posts: 375
|  Enough Oxygen?
Here's one for the really smart folks in this forum. I live at 5200 feet and 95% of my riding is done between 5200 and 8500 feet (occasionally I even ride up at 12000 feet). My M50 runs fine and produces plenty of power for my purposes. But I'm curious: I'm no scientist (did I even spell that right?), but I think there's less oxygen per volume of air up here than there is at, say, sea level. And I also believe that the fuel injection system only regulates the ratio of air to fuel and does not adjust that ratio for altitude. Is that true? I guess what it should do is increase the volume of air it mixes with a given amount of fuel as altitude increases. If I'm correct so far (that the air up here contains less O2 and that the bike doesn't automatically adjust the fuel-air ratio for changes in altitude), then my bike is not producing as much power as it would at sea level. Come to think of it, temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure probably affect how much oxygen in the air too. Does anyone have any knowledge on this topic and could you provide some insight? Is there anyway to overcome these altitude-related issues? |
