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Old 10-22-2009, 09:18 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by scrming View Post
Nope... Not even close... Yes you are moving more air but it still has less oxygen! You are just moving more "thin" air! It has to do with the composition of the air, not the volume...

Ok... The Jannetty test showed the Airaid added 9RWHP to a stock SS... so let say we give Airaid the benefit of the doubt and say you pick up 11RWHP. Now using a DA calculator looking at 7000 feet, if you run say a 15.00 in the 1/4, the DA calc says that if you run that same car at sea level you are looking at upper 13's. So clearly a full second faster. It takes a LOT more than 11 RWHP to make up a second! Rough number is about 10HP = 1/10th second...

So adding an Airaid my give you gain you .1 or .2 in the 1/4 mile... it certainly won't make up the difference between 7000 feet and sea level...
I was going to say something along these lines, but you beat me too it and worded it better than I probably would have anyway.

Heh.
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