Lpg ??

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Noel Hynes

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What are everyone's thoughts on LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas) (Might be named something else in the US) conversions ?? Petrol is becoming more and more expensive each day, and as a daily driver, I have crunched some figures and the conversion would pay for itself damn quick, but I am concerned about the performance. Has anyone done such a conversion ?? I would be interested to hear about the results....Thanks....
 
Hey Noel,
I just read a little about LPG. Sounds interesting. If you convert can you still use regular gas also? I read something about some production cars that use both. How widely available do you think it is? Might be a little harder to get sometimes. It's not like there's an LPG station on every corner.
 
You can run LPG and switch to gasoline with a converion kit . I have worked on buicks that had both . you loose a lot of trunk ( boot space ) space with the LPG tank in there.You will not want to park in a garage that is attached to your house ( Fire danger ) if you have a leak in your LPG tank (avg. size 300 lb. tank )
Hope this helps ans. some of your ??:beers:
 
LPG has a lower energy density then gasoline so if you just rework the intake the car will be down on power and mileage (see, there's always a reason why we aren't already using any of the 'alternative' fuels).

LPG has a much higher effective octane than gas though, so you could run much higher compression (quite a bit of work and expense and would make the car unuseable on gasoline) and/or advance your timing (very easy and no cost to you if you already have a timing light) and regain some of the power loss.

these conversions are much more common in Europe, you might want to check some Euro sites.
 
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