Converting A R34 Gtt Sedan To Lpg

[Noobs for Life]

Hi all,

Though I'd post up the conversion. I'm getting a R34 GTT sedan (it's the family car, pretty much stock, FMIC, pod, exhaust) converted to LPG using the vapour injection method (will be running dual fuel). Costing me about $5,200, then the gov rebate or $3,000. So out of pocket about $2,200 give or take (which if you use one of those online calculators, it would cost you almost the same in petrol for the 1st year, so 1st year no real saving, unless petrol hits $2, then laughing all the way but after that, the savings kick in, and who knows how much petrol will cost in a year, even 6 months. WA gov has capped LPG until 2010 at 70c, i think it only goes up about 10c - 15c after that, so will take a while to get anywhere near the price of petrol. For anyone saying "if you worried about petrol, don't buy a Skyline" I'm not worried at the moment, but i'm trying to look down the line, when sh*t gets really expensive. Personally, i'd rather spend the money on moding the car, instead of keeping it running.

Not starting this till a couple of weeks, need to get the part ordered, plus the installer is away on holiday next week.

Only reason I'm posting this is cause the place i'm getting it installed said i can film the whole process, they also dyno & tune the car after, so i can get a print out to add to the vid.

The place in question are doing some crazy sh*t with LPG, they have a drag car their working on at the moment, once finished, is meant to be the worlds fastest dedicated LPG drag/street car (main reason i trust them, they know what there doing, i already have trouble trusting other people with our lines) and really nice guys to deal with. Nice to meet people who like to do things a bit different.

All we have done so far was work out where to put the LPG tank. We are losing the spare wheel so the tank can go in. We could have gone for dedicated LPG, i was not to fussed about losing petrol as there are so many places selling LPG now it's not a major problem, but would have ended up with quite a few under body mods to remove the old tank and add a new. More time & money. They will also change the spark plugs (need to anyway) and he said they can gap them at 0.7 (i have no idea what this is, i don't know sh*t about cars ) due to it being gas which would ignite easier (once again, i don't really know what i'm talking about, trying to remember what he said to me).

I'll update the posts when more things happen.

Steve

Edited July 5, 2008 by Noobs for Life

[paulr33]

whilst i do (and many others) wish you best of luck with it most are a bit cynical on LP gas

the usual known gotcha's distract many skyline owners away from it and most skyline owners accept the fact they will be paying a premium price to run their car

you buy a skyline for a reason, not an A to B car, so the usual fuel cost tactics dont always apply - hell i put 100ron in my r33 for the sake of it (and it reduces knocking on aggressive timing).

so good luck and hope its what you expect, make sure you are aware of the known gotcha's with LPG, they are covered on here, just search for "LPG" in the forced induction section.

[Noobs for Life]

Thanks paulr33, yeah, one of the 1st things i did was search here before i posted , i though i'd post incase any1 else was interested. i've seen a few other people have tried this, so why not, might as well, and i get an insiders look in to the process at the same time (there letting me watch them install everything, dyno & tune. That's the interesting part. Taking a day off work for that one, i think it's a good excuse )

[paulr33]

if it was me, and i was dead set on LPG

then i would sell the skyline

get a std novated lease car and LPG that

like a std commodore/falcon and LPG it on a lease

[coakman]

Skylines Owners, of all people, shouldn't be trying to dissuade somebody from modding and trying something new!

I say go for it!

I, for one, will be watching with great interest...