Diesel LPG conversions?

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Egon Spengler

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• Jan 17, 2005

• #1

Greetings,

Does anyone have any experience of a td5 lpg conversion?
Is it worth doing?

Egon

 

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StaffBull

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• Jan 17, 2005

• #2

You wont save much fuel but it would go like a rocket!! BHP would be up by
about 30 - 40% LPG + large intercooler + chip = big fun!! ( oh and big
bills!)


"Egon Spengler" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
>
> Does anyone have any experience of a td5 lpg conversion?
> Is it worth doing?
>
> Egon
>

 

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Gmacz

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• Jan 17, 2005

• #3

> Does anyone have any experience of a td5 lpg conversion?
> Is it worth doing?

You would basically have to convert it to a petrol td5.
Lower compressions etc.
You would then not be able to put diesel in it anymore.
Not worth doing by a massive margin.
Yours Gmacz

 

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hugh

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• Jan 17, 2005

• #4

In message <[email protected]>, Gmacz
<[email protected]> writes
>> Does anyone have any experience of a td5 lpg conversion?
>> Is it worth doing?
>
>You would basically have to convert it to a petrol td5.

That's called a V8
>Lower compressions etc.
>You would then not be able to put diesel in it anymore.
>Not worth doing by a massive margin.
>Yours Gmacz
>
>
That idea went out the window a long time ago. I presume the OP is
thinking of LPG + diesel.
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hugh
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hugh

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• Jan 17, 2005

• #5

In message <[email protected]>, Egon Spengler
<[email protected]> writes
>Greetings,
>
>Does anyone have any experience of a td5 lpg conversion?
>Is it worth doing?
>
>Egon
>
>
Depends what you expect to get out of it. Forget about fuel economy,
what you will get however is loads more power, depending how much gas
you actually add in.

I did have a 200 Tdi with LPG kit on it but I don't know how a TD5 would
react. Might be worth having a word with Car Autogas in Stoke - they do
the kit.
Tel: 01782 838565

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Egon Spengler

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• Jan 17, 2005

• #6

> Depends what you expect to get out of it. Forget about fuel economy, what
> you will get however is loads more power, depending how much gas you
> actually add in.

From what I have read i'd expect more power and a smallish gain on mpg, but
obviously I never trust the blurb alone.
Hence I offered the question to the floor for the learned ones to comment
upon

> I did have a 200 Tdi with LPG kit on it but I don't know how a TD5 would
> react.
How did you find the 200 behaved with it on?

> Might be worth having a word with Car Autogas in Stoke - they do the kit.
> Tel: 01782 838565

Yup, probably is worth a call. thanks.

Egon

 

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hugh

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• Jan 17, 2005

• #7

In message <[email protected]>, Egon Spengler
<[email protected]> writes
>> Depends what you expect to get out of it. Forget about fuel economy, what
>> you will get however is loads more power, depending how much gas you
>> actually add in.
>
>From what I have read i'd expect more power and a smallish gain on mpg, but
>obviously I never trust the blurb alone.
>Hence I offered the question to the floor for the learned ones to comment
>upon
>
>> I did have a 200 Tdi with LPG kit on it but I don't know how a TD5 would
>> react.
>How did you find the 200 behaved with it on?
>
>> Might be worth having a word with Car Autogas in Stoke - they do the kit.
>> Tel: 01782 838565
>
>Yup, probably is worth a call. thanks.
>
>Egon
>
>
Had a lot of fun with it (The 200), road testing it up the M6. Gave a
few V8s quite a shock. Eventually set it up to give good power increase
with about break even on fuel economy. Had a 25 litre tank along the
wheel box in the rear. Initially we had a micro switch on the fuel pump
to switch off the LPG when you took your foot off the accelerator. Later
replaced that with a pressure switch activated by turbo boost. Also had
temperature sensor to hold off LPG until engine had warmed up as there
was talk of it being undesirable to burn LPG when cold. We also modified
the vaporiser and used a small spud mixer cos otherwise you get too much
LPG in.

Ours was quite a crude system compared with the ones Car Autogas are
fitting.
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hugh
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Austin Shackles

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• Jan 18, 2005

• #8

On or around Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:54:34 -0000, "Gmacz"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>> Does anyone have any experience of a td5 lpg conversion?
>> Is it worth doing?
>
>You would basically have to convert it to a petrol td5.
>Lower compressions etc.
>You would then not be able to put diesel in it anymore.
>Not worth doing by a massive margin.
>Yours Gmacz
>

not quite true, you can fumigate it with LPG and run on a mixture. can't
see it being worth it on such an engine though, and it'd probably be
difficult to get it tuned right unless you can burn your own eproms for the
engine management.

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Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young / In a world
of magnets and miracles / Our thoughts strayed constantly and without
boundary / The ringing of the Division bell had begun. Pink Floyd (1994)