Strike_Lightning Strike_Lightning Donating Members 198 Member For: 18y 11m 8d Gender: Male Location: Warnbro WA Posted 23/06/08 06:57 AM Share Posted 23/06/08 06:57 AM hi guys. has anyone had any experience with running these magnifecent vehicles on gas. it can be done, or so the gas doctor has told me, bit more expensive than a normal fit. $4800 then with the gov rebate of $3000 it costs about $1800. might take me a while to recoup the cost but I guess if im keeping her for a few years it might be worth it. is there any xr6t's out there already fitted with gas ??cheers dg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XR_Brute Member 120 Member For: 17y 11m 2d Gender: Male Location: melbourne Posted 23/06/08 07:27 AM Share Posted 23/06/08 07:27 AM A friend of mine is fitting his terry turbo with gas as we speak, and then driving it around OZ for 3 months, ill let you know how it goes in a week or so if you like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seventytwo Still have a turbo, it's just on a diesel. Lifetime Members 5,368 Member For: 19y 7m 24d Gender: Male Location: The 8th Dimension Posted 23/06/08 08:03 AM Share Posted 23/06/08 08:03 AM Yes it can be done, do a net search on Vapour phase injection LPG or if you can wait awhile Liquid phase injection LPG is not far way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 6m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 23/06/08 09:21 AM Share Posted 23/06/08 09:21 AM I have a magazine, with a guy from SA I think who fitted one on his T.. His T was also running over 300rwkw's and the writer of the mag commented that he couldnt feel/tell the difference when running on gas then switched back to petrol.. Performance was the same he said... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike_Lightning Strike_Lightning Donating Members 198 Member For: 18y 11m 8d Gender: Male Location: Warnbro WA Posted 23/06/08 12:39 PM Author Share Posted 23/06/08 12:39 PM cheers guys, that would be great to hear how the territory goes. I think I will do a bit more information searching before I commit to the fittingdg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackisack Member 33 Member For: 17y 7m 5d Posted 23/06/08 07:01 PM Share Posted 23/06/08 07:01 PM From what I've read if you get your T tuned properly it will actually increase your power as the LPG is a faster and cooler burning fuel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iTec TEAM BA Donating Members 1,755 Member For: 20y 2m 24d Gender: Male Location: North of The Bridge Posted 23/06/08 07:13 PM Share Posted 23/06/08 07:13 PM (edited) From what I've read if you get your T tuned properly it will actually increase your power as the LPG is a faster and cooler burning fuel.that's true to some extent but most gas systems can not flow enough gas to sustain high power, meaning you would need duel tanks + gas lines. the car Mika is talking about ran duel fuel, gas for low power applications and petrol when the throttle was stabbed to the floor, that's the best setup because you get the daily economy of gas and the weekend potential of fuel Edited 23/06/08 07:13 PM by iTec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevo Member 286 Member For: 17y 2m 14d Gender: Male Location: Wanneroo, Perth WA Posted 24/06/08 01:32 AM Share Posted 24/06/08 01:32 AM there was a Nissan RB30 Turbo in a toyota hilux ute at motorvation a couple of years ago (WA's SUMMERNATS), that was biuilt for gas only with a compression ratio of 12:1 and had a little over 310kw at the rubber. Apparently gas runs well in high comp applications so ...so I can be done! Then again building an engine like he did to suit the gas for power applications costs money- I imagine would probably just be cheaper to stick with petrol and not build a bomb custom expensive engine haha, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoke'm Member 104 Member For: 17y 9m 7d Gender: Male Location: adelaide, SA Posted 24/06/08 01:35 AM Share Posted 24/06/08 01:35 AM I have a magazine, with a guy from SA I think who fitted one on his T.. His T was also running over 300rwkw's and the writer of the mag commented that he couldnt feel/tell the difference when running on gas then switched back to petrol.. Performance was the same he said...that's is my mates dads car APE. he owns adelaide performance engineers im having that same system put on mine in the coming weeks. he is running 330 RWKW with 1300nm it hauls ass and uses the same amount of fuel a week as a standard turbo. the system uses lpg to certain point under load when the load exceeds that capable of the lpg injectors. it switches to petrol without any coffing or rev change under load. it is quiet amazing. but the lpg set up if it was used on a standard T would be capable of handling the stock power easily so no need to change to petrol unless driver chooses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXR6T Member 224 Member For: 17y 5m 14d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 24/06/08 04:20 AM Share Posted 24/06/08 04:20 AM this is really interesting...what are the costs involved of getting this sort of set up smoke'em??also excuse my ignorance but which type of fuel is more reliable and better for the engine?? or are they pretty much the same thing??also.... does anyone know how much power a standard LPG system could handle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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