[Mgs] Market opportunity

[Hans Duinhoven]

Hi Bob,

This was a car used for taxi work. The car was converted to drive on LPG by an
LPG specialist.
After such a conversion the car must be tested by the official authorities.
Obviously they'll search for leaks.
LPG use to be quite popular as fuel in the seventies. At these days conversion
on carburettor engines was easy.
LPG fuel is cheap and very clean.
However the latest petrol (UK) / gas (USA) engines and their fuel injection
systems are not easy to convert to LPG, so this is costy. Also the milage is
less than normal petrol / gas fuel.
On top of this the LPG tank takes room from the boot space, or is built under
the car.
These tanks cannot be filled for 100% - 80% max is normal.
This will reduce the amount of miles you can drive per tank a lot.
I have drive three cars on LPG: twice a Peugeot 505 and one Chrysler Voyager
2.4 automatic.
In the Netherlands LPG conversion is very popular for typical the cars which
make a gurgle sounds (i.e. the big V8 blocks in Chevy's, Caddy's, but also in
big Mercs / BMW etc.

LPG converted cars are taxed overhere more heavily than their normal fueled
broyher models.
So currently the modern diesel cars are far more popular by the people who
drive a lot.
BTW - I know some MGB's, which have been converted to run on LPG. Very cheap
to drive, but the tank content is small, so the tank must be filled every 100
miles or so.


Hope this explains it a bit more.

Cheers,

Hans
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: mgbob at juno.com
  To: h.duinhoven at planet.nl
  Cc: rocknatural at gmail.com ; mgs at autox.team.net
  Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [Mgs] Market opportunity


  Hans,
    Tell us more about the LPG Buick.
     Was that a Buick option, something done by a conversion shop, a
conversion you made?
  Bob


  ---------- Original Message ----------
  From: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven at planet.nl>
  To: "The Roxter" <rocknatural at gmail.com>, "MG List" <mgs at autox.team.net>
  Subject: Re: [Mgs] Market opportunity
  Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:36:22 +0100

  Talking about a blow - I once had a blow in the airfilter of a Buick Park
  Avenue.
  Problem was caused by the engine not starting immediately and then the LPG
  gas still was flowing into the air intake.
  A backfire ignited the highly flammable gas - a big hole in the airfilter
  housing was the result.

  Since then I stay away from LPG fueled cars....

  Cheers,
  Hans