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JamesV6CDX

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My LPG Savings - after conversion
« on: 02 December 2007, 12:02:36 »
£70 of petrol, at £1.02/litre - 300 miles to a tank tops, driving hard

£30 of LPG, at 45.0p/litre - 280 miles to a tank, again driving with a very heavy right foot.

My fuel costs have more than halved...  :)
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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #1 on: 02 December 2007, 12:24:44 »
heavy right foot eh! that would explain the state of your old autubox which i have in pieces at the moment ,believe me the thrust washer was the least of your problems.boat anchor or what!!!
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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #2 on: 02 December 2007, 12:25:30 »
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heavy right foot eh! that would explain the state of your old autubox which i have in pieces at the moment ,believe me the thrust washer was the least of your problems.boat anchor or what!!!

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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #3 on: 02 December 2007, 12:26:15 »
thats a good drop in costs!
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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #4 on: 02 December 2007, 12:43:30 »
yep the gas is a good saver 15k and i saved in a year over £1300 in fuel alone roughly with petrol at the price it is
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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #5 on: 02 December 2007, 13:40:50 »
Excellent. And that's not with it "running right" yet :y

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« Reply #6 on: 02 December 2007, 13:43:11 »
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Excellent. And that's not with it "running right" yet :y

Kevin

Its' really not far off running right, to be honest...  

I rekon the bit of hesitation is an air leak somewhere..
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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #7 on: 02 December 2007, 13:49:27 »
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I rekon the bit of hesitation is an air leak somewhere..

Could be that the fuelling is not 100% yet. Our quick tweak got it pretty good, but I reckon another tweak now it's bedded in (probably best once the misfire is cured) would be worthwhile.

Under what conditions does it hesitate? On gas / petrol / both? Cold / Hot / both? blipping from idle? Putting your foot down whilst underway? Under constant cruising?

It could simply be that the acceleration enrichment is set up for petrol, and of course the same enrichment is applied for gas, so maybe it's par for the course :-/ There's a bit more pipework for the gas to get through when you blip it so maybe a bit more delay in the fuelling picking up.

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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #8 on: 02 December 2007, 18:29:49 »
I put 30 liters in mine tonight (thats what we have used messing around trying to get it right)

Mind you i did do 130 miles of fast A roads as well

Filled it up again tonight and will be off to london 1/2 a tank of petrol and 56 litres of fart juice......

Happy days eh!!
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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #9 on: 02 December 2007, 20:23:48 »
It may be a little 'off' at the moment, as lpg needs a 1000 miles or so to settle down as it clears the crap out.
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« Reply #10 on: 02 December 2007, 20:34:41 »
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It may be a little 'off' at the moment, as lpg needs a 1000 miles or so to settle down as it clears the crap out.

Quite likely Jaime, it's getting better all the time

Btw, you have PM :)
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Re: My LPG Savings - after conversion
« Reply #11 on: 02 December 2007, 21:32:03 »
Just to add to the theory regarding lpg, and the slight missfire when you blip the throttle. I have been driving an lpg transit connect for the last 4 years as a company hack and it has had the 'miss' ever since new, and has been to ford for them to check it, all the system checks out ok and you come to live with it. I think it may be that the lpg is less dense than petrol and ignited in a different way to petrol. :-?
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