Hahahaha...AWESOME!

 

hahaha, running on half a tank is priceless.

Take your box of jets with ya on the trip. But yes, go abit leaner maybe 2 sizes. Enjoy the road trip.

 

If you want to know some of the physics behind the rejetting conundrum:

the percentage of oxygen is essentially the same at high elevations when compared to lower elevations (20.9% o2), it's the PRESSURE of the atmospheric gases that is lower at high elevations.

So, when your piston gulps air on the intake stroke at high elevation, there is not as high a pressure gradient across the intake valve; with less pressure gradient, there are fewer total air molecules that make it into the combustion chamber. So, although the piston is pulling hard enough to get about it's normal amount of fuel pulled into the combustion chamber, there is less air pulled in on each intake. The result is the mixture is "richer" as you go up in elevation. That's why people run smaller jets when all they ride is Pike's Peak, compared to those riding around Death Valley (a couple of hundred feet BELOW sea level).

 

So, would a stock klx with the lid off work in Colorado?

 

"So, would a stock klx with the lid off work in Colorado?"
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Read my reply at the top of page two in this thread.

 

Blackheart58 is correct our atmosphere is 20.9% O2 everywhere, if you multiply the total atmospheric pressure by 20.9% you will get the pressure of O2 available in any given situation. This will explain the problems encountered with changes in elevation.

 

Very interesting, on the "thin air" . So, at sea level, if you take a deep breath you will actually be able to inhale (with the help of the higher atmospheric pressure) a larger volume of air, compared to the volume of a deep breath on a 10,000 ft mountain top in CO.
I'm just asking because the "thin air" is very noticeable to anyone who travels to higher altitudes. This also makes me wonder what goes on when people acclimate to the higher elevations. Interesting stuff.
Dan

 

If you escape from a submarine that is trapped at depth you can and do exhale all the way to the surface due to the expansion of gas in your lungs from the decreasing pressure.

 

I run a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for a job so this stuff is my life.

 

This is where our house is going to be for the second week,

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.819...,0.066047&z=15

the first week we are staying in a camper in a couple places.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.080...,0.166168&z=13

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.327...,0.004117&z=19