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General Car Chat / LPG Kit Supplier and some thoughts...
« on: 15 February 2010, 13:34:30 »
I have spoken to the supplier today and expressed some concerns with respect to his answering service as several people, myself included, have had issues getting in contact. The good news is that he has hopefully settled down a bit now and shouldn't be travelling as much 
He's also developed a new ECU, with some interesting features including a "self-learn" function, which does exactly that... You calibrate it and set it to self-learn and it does the full calibration whilst being driven about, without the need for a laptop connected and someone keeping an eye on it
Now for the interesting part... I'm looking at options for Toroidal tanks for the Estate I'm after and was struggling to see more than a 55L tank fitting, which included raising the floor about an inch. This simply wouldn't be big enough for my requirements (in reality) as that's only a 44L usable size and 10ish Gallons at an average 20mpg (worst case average) isn't enough, never mind when the Caravan is on the back
The suggestion, which is something he has done numerous times, is to cut out the bottom of the wheel well and use a top mounted tank attached to a steel plate which is, in turn, fitted to the boot floor over the wheel well. :-/ :-/
Now this has some real potential... It means the floor doesn't need raising any noticeable amount (2.5-3mm for the plate) and, I think, a 77L tank... Which is much more reasonable, giving about 61L usable, only 3 L less than Kevin Woods' and Entwood's tanks. This makes it workable
My thinking is that it has real potential... Whilst I'm not overly happy about cutting a great hole in the floor of a new car, it does mean getting a reasonable sized tank in. As long as it's finished properly and sealed correctly it's fine
So... Any thoughts?
He's also developed a new ECU, with some interesting features including a "self-learn" function, which does exactly that... You calibrate it and set it to self-learn and it does the full calibration whilst being driven about, without the need for a laptop connected and someone keeping an eye on it
Now for the interesting part... I'm looking at options for Toroidal tanks for the Estate I'm after and was struggling to see more than a 55L tank fitting, which included raising the floor about an inch. This simply wouldn't be big enough for my requirements (in reality) as that's only a 44L usable size and 10ish Gallons at an average 20mpg (worst case average) isn't enough, never mind when the Caravan is on the back
The suggestion, which is something he has done numerous times, is to cut out the bottom of the wheel well and use a top mounted tank attached to a steel plate which is, in turn, fitted to the boot floor over the wheel well. :-/ :-/
Now this has some real potential... It means the floor doesn't need raising any noticeable amount (2.5-3mm for the plate) and, I think, a 77L tank... Which is much more reasonable, giving about 61L usable, only 3 L less than Kevin Woods' and Entwood's tanks. This makes it workable
My thinking is that it has real potential... Whilst I'm not overly happy about cutting a great hole in the floor of a new car, it does mean getting a reasonable sized tank in. As long as it's finished properly and sealed correctly it's fine
So... Any thoughts?
