sluggish in hot weather. what helps?

[Muscle Car Lover]

Cold air catch can, like we used to do at local tracks, for the fuel line. Coil the gas line inside an insulated can then pack that with ice or better dry ice with ethanol/methanol. Could probably do that for the air intake too.

[Scalded Dog]

Originally Posted by Cuda7050

There is no getting around it.... higher elevations hurt power. Think about the poor guys with SS's in Denver, they must feel like their driving a V6 around.

I once drove my '82 Camaro, 104 HP, to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado... elevation 14,000ish feet. Near the top, giving it all the throttle that the floor would allow, produced a low "growl" that maxxed the car out at somewhere under 30 MPH... at one point, a group of Sherpas passed me, on foot (ok, I made THAT part up). The grade at that point was only very slight; the elevation was entirely responsible for robbing that car of perhaps 80 of the little tiny ponies under the hood, leaving only enough for crawling along at half the speed of smell.

That's one reason the Pike's Peak race is a respectable test not only of driver skill, but of mechanical genius, as the builders of vehicles for that race must find ways to compensate for the suffocating thinness of air.

[CamaroJoe96]

Get an MPD1 hood which come with heat extractors!