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Location: NSW - Blue Mountains
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Re: !@#$%ING FUEL PRICES
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Thu, 01 September 2005 11:17

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GUN METAL 87 SC wrote on Thu, 01 September 2005 19:28 | Yep, there are some negatives with gas.
It depends if you are going for straight gas or dual fuel.
some of the late model duel fuel set ups can work very well on EFI cars but has to be ones designed for it so that the fuel mapping timing etc are adjusted for the different fuels. To my knowlege even most of the current crop dont do this and subsequently you get a compromise which results in the worst of both worlds. The car needs to be specifically tuned for each fuel....FULL STOP !
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Do "Gas Only" engines use more advanced or reduced timing over petrol engines, what if it was tuned more towards one then the other?, ie. tuned more towards LPG and have petrol run through it on start up and every so often to prevent things from drying out and creating problems.
GUN METAL 87 SC wrote on Thu, 01 September 2005 19:28 |
As previously mentioned some gaskets etc are a prob on some engines, you would have to check with the installer. from what i understand if its dual fuel you can overcome some of the probs by starting the car on petrol then after 10-15 mins go to the gas, but as i said erlier you may end up in the worst of both world. From what i understand there is another way to overcome the drying effect in gas only conversions where there is a fluid injected at a certain rate to lubricate / keep wetted certain components.
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Is there actually something that can inject petrol at regular intervals to keep everything lubricated while its running on a duel fuel setup?
If there is that would be pretty useful for the times that you may forget to change back to petrol, also wouldnt this screw with the timing having two different fuels mixing together? I would think that a setup like that may not be as economical having both fuel pumped in at once, unless the setup changed automatically between the fuels at regular intervals and used petrol for the start-up/warm-up time.
GUN METAL 87 SC - What type of economy do you get from a 140ltr tank? cost around $60 to fill up a tank that size, am i right?
cheers
chris
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