Gas powered 'Liners!!

Gas powered 'Liners!!

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tuttle

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3,427 posts

244 months

Thursday 22nd September 2005
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I have a guy coming over tonight to buy an Apexi cone for his R33 GTST.
Anyway during converation it turns out his 'liner is gas powered.I have heard of one or two that have been converted but not yet actually met one.
Seems like a good economy idea,as I understand there is not a performance hit for using gas.
I'm quite interested in it.Ineed you guys to think of some questions to ask him about use of gas,I'm (un)usually brain dead with flu & am just going erm...erm..etc a lot:headache:
Cheers & thanks all. :)

Mr E

22,128 posts

266 months

Thursday 22nd September 2005
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I wonder what the range is?

Seems like a smart idea. LPG is a slight performance hit, but nothing you couldn't deal with by turning up the boost a bit*.


*well, while you're there, turn it up a lot.

tuttle

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3,427 posts

244 months

Thursday 22nd September 2005
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The car was actually a '32,completely 100% standard so quite good to make comparisons-So Quiet! I couldn't believe it.
The lpg gas conversion was about £1400.00,very little evidence of any change under the bonnet.It comprises of a piggyback ecu,a diffuser/heater-brings the gas upto 50 deg C(looks like,& similar position to, a small brake booster),injectors along the fuel rail & the tank,which sits above & behind existing tank in the boot.
Owner reccons about 20mpg-but then gas is half the price.He's happy.He recons he's getting a bit more power & the delivery is much smoother,with very little tubby lag.I had a very quick spin & TBH,I couldn't really say either way,tho it certainly went well enough.
So! an interesting experience,petrol would have to be pretty expensive to warrant a £1400.00 outlay-for me anyway. You could buy quite a few go-faster toys for that.

Turbo T

1,382 posts

255 months

Friday 23rd September 2005
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Propane has an octane rating of around 120 from memory compared to 98 for optimax.