76 914. PM me as the run gets closer I down for a caravan. Any know the elevation in Durango?how does a carburetor car run at higher elevation.

6550' ASL. And yes, you will need to adjust those carbs. A few times.

Yes, 6500 ft in town, but the mountain passes are 11,000 ft.

The other option is to go through Telluride and Dolores. The makes the trip from Rigdway to Durango a 4 hour trip, instead of 2 hours on 550.

Yep - like Bob said. It is 6600 feet ASL in Durango but the mountain passes are closer to 11,000 feet. I have a 2143cc/4 carbed car that does fine over the passes (wide band AFR tuned at 6600 feet) - but you do lose HP at altitude. The worst case is you run rich (washing down the cylinders) which is better than running too lean I think. My 2.7L/6 fuel injected 914 doesn't blink at altitude.

Jeff can probably guide you better. @sixnotfour

I drove my carbed car on several mountain rallies and while yes it was a little rich I had no problems keeping up. There were a few time where I had to keep the rpms high and I did adjust the idle speed once or twice but the car was totally driveable and did not leave me stranded. Go for it.

Michael is right - he was always fast running with the pack.

I just told Wills don't follow me......stinky

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Not enough emojis.

You nailed it. As an afterthought I almost wrote, "Did I forget any?"

I'm in...trip is booked

Reservations made

I'm in, but I won't be coming to Montrose for the first night. We'll join the festivities in Durango.

You were just in Montrose! What was up with that?!

Any word on t-shirts yet? Is the drive from montrose to Durango the only long drive. Are there going to be day trips in Durango?

Montrose looked like a good place to get some critical mail as we worked our way across Colorado. Nice place, but too warm at this time of year. I've seen all of Montrose that I need to see for a long time!

damn close to a Slits comment..

I will already be in Durango, so I'm in! Will probably have the assdragger though...

You can bring the 964 but you can't turn on the A/C!

PS: Here is the current state of the Raspberry /6.

Back fire blew up the CIS air box. It is unlikely to be running for RRC because I can't even spell C-I-S.

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ouch...
sorry Mike
put a pop off valve in it when it goes back together
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Thanks Brant!

It had a pop-off valve installed and it blew it to pieces and put a hole in the air filter.

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wow...
I put one in my old 83

but never observed it to pop
assumed that took care of all problems
sorry that was a big bang...

I cannot get a room in Durango.
I am planning on attending and was able to get a reservation at the Red Arrow Inn & Suites in Montrose.
Durango Downtown Inn is booked all the way into December. The gal on the phone said the dorms are closed so the college students are renting motel rooms. Sounds insane for the college students. Thats all I know. I could maybe tent it.

there is bound to be a cancellation

if anyone has to drop out, maybe post on the thread so another member can take your room reservation

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It’s close! And yes there will be a Saturday drive. Figuring out options.

Thanks for response Sharon. I think we're going to go straight into Durango.

Keith and I are staying at the Casa Blanca casino/motel in Mesquite, NV Wednesday nite then meeting with John Thursday morning before driving up to Montrose. The drive on Friday from Montrose to El Dorado is via the Million Dollar Hi Way. I hope you don't miss out on that trip. The view is stunning to say the least.

Don't worry about it. Surely one of the college girls will split the rent with ya for 2 nites. Stop over in Duluth and bring Rick with ya.

Don't worry about it. Surely one of the college girls will split the rent with ya for 2 nites. Stop over in Duluth and bring Rick with ya.
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That would be great if Rick could make it and I have asked. The only possibility that I can see would work would be to clone him so he could work on his house and get his car ready also. Maybe?

Break through on my poor old car

I got it to start today for the first time since it drove into the garage from RRC 2019

Try the Caboose; we stayed there at the last RR
Number (970) 247-1191

3363 Main Ave
Durango CO
United States
@914Subaru

So I actually double booked (found a slightly better rate) and then never canceled my original reservation so at the moment I have 2 rooms reserved at the Durango. It was on my to-do list to call and cancel one of them tomorrow. If anyone is still looking for a room perhaps we can coordinate getting that 2nd reservation transferred.

I will hold off on canceling for now given there seems to be a room shortage.

I can use the room if you still have it. I sent a PM.

Million Dollar Highway.
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Yep - we have had a LOT of rain the last few days. This slide was between Silverton and Ouray.

I can use a room if anyone is double booked or canceling

Well....

sounds like the Durango Downtown Inn may be about to us dry.

Called this morning to see if I could transfer a reservation to another member and was told that they couldn't because not only can new reservations not be made but all existing reservations are going to be invalidated for dorm use during that time.

Hoping the girl I talked to was mistaken, but i guess better to find this out now than after driving 400 miles into the mountains of Colorado in a 50 year old car.

@SharonG may want to call and verify this.

Girl I talked to recommended the Best Western Plus Rio Grande Inn which looks nice but is going up in price and looks like there are a lot of other options as well. Let me know what the new plan is and i will re-book.


EDIT: Just made backup reservations at the Hampton Inn, just in case until we know what is going on.

What's wrong with Ouray instead. Surely they've forgotten about that little "furniture in the parking lot" incident by now.

Great choice (The Hampton) but not close to downtown. The owner is Porsche guy - has a GT3 Cup Car and used to campaign in the GT4 Clubsport series (came in 2nd in the Western region). Eric Shea sees him at Miller Motorsports track (or whatever it is called now) where he is an instructor.

There is a trolley stop right at The Hampton for a ride into town.

That was Moab and I doubt they've forgotten

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Moab, Ouray; same thing.

I did the same.