Sunday, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:18
Gday Ben. The gas was good while it worked, but I have an issue with the converter, it seems that our LPG has an oily residue that affected a certain batch of these, of which I have one. (covered under warrenty, but there is no LPG installers in town, and the nest town is quite a way so I haven't got it fixed yet!
The power increase on
mine was 14% (dyno), and is much more 'driveable'. (not as many gear changes). The fuel usage in volume remained the same, went from 14l/100k strait diesel to about 11ld, 3lgas/100km, si a saving of about $1.80 per 100km. At that rate, it should pay for itself in about 80,000km (after wa and national rebate). The car probably wont last that long, but if you consider you have also got a performance mod a bit like a chip (possibly not as much power increase though), an extra 28 litres of fuel (about half the extra capacity of an $800.00 long range
tank) I think it has paid for itself quite quickly.
With the trouble
mine is giving at the moment, In a way I would have prefered to go down the same lines as Lucy did, with a much simpler system, but you can tweak my kit quite a bit if you live near an installer. (lovato's) Ther is another sophisticated system out there that you can plug your mobile phone into and have it tuned remotely, but they were about an extra $1000.00 when I was looking around for one.
If you are considering it, but still getting the exhaust done next week, it may pay to get the exhaust modified so that the
tank will fit at a later date, the
tank goes where the big mufler is, sorry, have no photo's of
mine at work.
Cheers Andrew
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