[Healeys] Ugh

[Charlie Baldwin]

Kees,
Is it fairly common in The Netherlands to have cars running on LPG?  The 
reason that I ask is that several years ago a Dutch vintage Volvo club 
was here in the US to tour across the country for several months.  Some 
friends and I met up with them early in the tour in Gettysburg, PA.  
Most all of these car were equipped to run on LPG and most had to 
convert back to gasoline to do the tour here.  These were Volvos from 
the late '50s & '60s generally which had SU carbs.
One of the things that I wondered is where they hid the tanks for the 
LPG if they also had the original gasoline tank too.
Charlie

Oudesluys wrote:
> No problem. You do not have an oxygen sensor in your Healey to weaken 
> the mixture. The car runs on good old carbs without any electronics. 
> Adjusting the mixture by screwing up or down the needle in the SU's 
> will all that is neccesary if at all.
> The main problem is a higher accidity of exhaust gasses causing havoc 
> on mild steel exhausts. This can also be a problem on pistons, rings 
> and bores if the car is used a lot on short trips were the engine does 
> not heat up fully.
> I ran 100% ethanol cars in the late 70's in experiments with existing 
> cars that had modifications to the carbs (mainly jetting) and 
> ignition. In this program we had cars running on natural gas, LPG, 
> petrol and ethanol. In the end the 100% ethanol caused to much 
> problems for existing cars, natural gas was to expensive and 
> bothersome to store so only petrol (later mixed with a certain amount 
> of ethanol) and LPG remained practical as they had done so before.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
> Bob Spidell wrote:
>> Wonder what this'll do to our Healeys.  I've probably run 10% gasahol 
>> through my BJ8-you never really know what's coming out of the 
>> pump--and survived, but the 'run too hot' part concerns me.
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/business/energy-environment/05ethanol.html?hpw 
>>
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