This is depressing. The car feels good and strong and it’s not too hot. I’d love to drive this at anything near sea level. I wonder how different it would feel.
Very different I am sure. I know my FI cars feel much stronger at sea level, most likely because the turbos are making boost easier and earlier.
Five thousand feet? Wow!
I know, and on a cool, dry day with relatively high presure. According to the same calculator on a typical summer day it’s closer to 7400 ft. I wish I hadn’t discovered this calculator 
that’s insane.
our dragstrip is at 632 feet and last time there, I was complaining that it’s up in the clouds (relative to my town, which is virtually at sea level lol)
I feel your pain. It’s why I put turbos big enough to swallow babies on everything.
Damn that is up there.
This is why I love living right above sea level. According to drag times I am about thirty feet above sea level. Not to rub it in but last year in November there were some -2600 DA nights at capital raceway.
-2600 is nuts. Most I’ve ever had was -800 feet, in my old S4 when it was barely modded.
I wonder what -2600 would do for my RS4. I ran 12.75 @ 108.36 last year in +281 feet of DA. Interestingly it was around -200 feet earlier in the day, but my best times came when it warmed up a bit. I don’t know why…my 60 foot times were the same all day for the most part at around 1.83-1.85. My car doesn’t seem to love the negative DA…but I know it hates the + DA as the numbers get up there. When I was there with 2000 feet of DA, I felt like 13.1 was a victory.
I may, MAY, get to the drag strip in Edmonton on the 29 th. They are physically at 2200 feet above sea level and in late sept in the evening the temps should be pretty cool. I wouldn’t be surprised it the DA could get decently below 2000 feet.
According to the calculator i checked out a while ago which is just a guess pretty much it cut off 2 tenths on a turbo’d car if it wasnt so humid in MD right now which if you were at a lower sea level like we are im sure on a nice day you could take a few tenths off
The issue I have with DA calculations pertaining to FI cars is that they don’t account for the extra heat that is generated at higher altitude to generate the same boost levels as at sea level. That means that your entire system has to work harder.
I never thought it really mattered that much, I live at 5000 ft. I wonder what it would feel like driving at sea level. I doesn’t seem like that would be something you could even notice.
It’s sad to say but… It’s extremely noticeable
I think that’s taken into account a little at least, isn’t it? I agree that they’re certainly not accurate. It’s too corrective on the stock NA cars on Dragtimes.com. For example my car ran 12.89 @ 108.0 last week at around 1200 feet of DA…and dragtimes told me I would run 12.75 @ 110 at 0 feet. Thing is, I’ve run my car at 0 feet DA…about 20 consistent passes. I’ve never seen MPH over 108.4.
Corrected quarter mile times via DA is about as useful as a butt dyno lol.
Perhaps, but it would be impossible to accurately predict the efficiency of a given turbo or sc, so it ends up being hopelessly inaccurate
good point
What a difference a day makes… I suppose if it’s going to be stupid cold there should be some upsides. I can say that on nights like this the car feels like it would brutalize its warmer weather self.
Wow - 9 Fahrenheit?
So that’s what… - 23 or something? Cold.
I had - 3800 here a few days ago.
I was joking with a friend today that on days like today I know what it feels like to drive a tuned+light mods s4. At a natural 3500 feet it would be closer to a stock s4 in TO.