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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 24 June 2008, 20:35:22
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... on the LPG conversion.
Firstly, needed a gasket to put the inlet manifold back on. Go to Vx, tell him what I want. Walk out with it all in a bag. Get home, wrong one. Go back to Vx - sorry sir, we don't have the one you want in stock. Go to a motor factors - get one, albeit pattern and £10.
Getting on for lunch time, Head home, blow up engine in the CDX >:( and have to walk remaining 5 miles home - thank the lord there was a pub at the half way point, for a quick bite and a cheeky pint of Fosters ::)
So anyway, a late start.
Jobs done were
Clean up of inlet manifold, remove all swarf with pressure washer
Fit manifold to car
Measure and Fit LPG injector to nozzle pipes/clips
Fit throttle body
Remove HBV (again!), fabricate some 90 degree adaptors and do the plumbing for the (phantom) evaporator
Mount LPG ECU. (I've gone for under the scuttle again, I felt more comfortable with that)
Start on the wiring - made (what I consider to be, given my lack of electrical skills) an extremely tidy job of the injector splice wiring and I've got the cable tray cover back on so you can hardly tell it's under there.
I've also run the parts of the LPG loom to the various places they need to go in the engine bay. (confusion on 2 aspects, see Electrical/ICE!)
I've run the car up to temp and all is currently well on petrol.
Tomorrow, all I have left to do is -
Mount and fit the vaporisor (assuming it arrives, it better had!)
Mount the filter and run the gas pipe to the injectors
Make some electrical connections
Cut a hole and mount the filler (As long as the Qmax from Mr Sassanach arrives)
Mount the switch on the dashboard and run the wires in the car
Then it's a case of go get some gas and press the magic switch ::) ;D
Followed by the fuel mapping.
In all seriousnes, I need this completed on Thursday at the LATEST, because the only way I can afford the lakes meet is if it's on LPG!
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after blowing up the engine and walking 5 miles home,i think most of us would have wrote the day off and made a large dent in a case of beer.you are one commited enthusiast james. :y
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I confused things on the other post - it was the CDX that seized - not the new GLS!
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Good work .... but ..... when are you recovering the blown-up beast ?? :(
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... on the LPG conversion.
Firstly, needed a gasket to put the inlet manifold back on. Go to Vx, tell him what I want. Walk out with it all in a bag. Get home, wrong one. Go back to Vx - sorry sir, we don't have the one you want in stock. Go to a motor factors - get one, albeit pattern and £10.
Getting on for lunch time, Head home, blow up engine in the CDX >:( and have to walk remaining 5 miles home - thank the lord there was a pub at the half way point, for a quick bite and a cheeky pint of Fosters ::)
So anyway, a late start.
Jobs done were
Clean up of inlet manifold, remove all swarf with pressure washer
Fit manifold to car
Measure and Fit LPG injector to nozzle pipes/clips
Fit throttle body
Remove HBV (again!), fabricate some 90 degree adaptors and do the plumbing for the (phantom) evaporator
Mount LPG ECU. (I've gone for under the scuttle again, I felt more comfortable with that)
Start on the wiring - made (what I consider to be, given my lack of electrical skills) an extremely tidy job of the injector splice wiring and I've got the cable tray cover back on so you can hardly tell it's under there.
I've also run the parts of the LPG loom to the various places they need to go in the engine bay. (confusion on 2 aspects, see Electrical/ICE!)
I've run the car up to temp and all is currently well on petrol.
Tomorrow, all I have left to do is -
Mount and fit the vaporisor (assuming it arrives, it better had!)
Mount the filter and run the gas pipe to the injectors
Make some electrical connections
Cut a hole and mount the filler (As long as the Qmax from Mr Sassanach arrives)
Mount the switch on the dashboard and run the wires in the car
Then it's a case of go get some gas and press the magic switch ::) ;D
Followed by the fuel mapping.
In all seriousnes, I need this completed on Thursday at the LATEST, because the only way I can afford the lakes meet is if it's on LPG!
All the best James with the LPG. It sounds as though you are doing a grand job! ;) Have a good time at the Lakes! :y :y
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Good work .... but ..... when are you recovering the blown-up beast ?? :(
Tomorrow - it's in a perfectly safe spot :y
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after blowing up the engine and walking 5 miles home,i think most of us would have wrote the day off and made a large dent in a case of beer.you are one commited enthusiast james. :y
Very tempting but.. I don't want to disappoint Maria, I need this running for the Lakes trip :y
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I confused things on the other post - it was the CDX that seized - not the new GLS!
i did realise that,i was just commenting that it would dampen my enthusiasm for working on cars for the rest of the day ;)