If you think you horse power has left town on Gasoline you don't know what slow is until you go backwards to propane. If you had a Big Block with more than adequate Horse Power it would be a reasonable trade off but with the limited HP you're dealing with you'd hate LP fuel for motor fuel. In 1972 I had a Cabana Motor Home with a 440 Wedge head Chrysler engine and the dual fuel setup worked good. We just run the fuel for the occasion ....... nice flatland; LP fuel, mountains; gasoline. Its cool to see your tail pipe looking like its coated with talcum powder but other than that its just a bad trade, Stan
On Sat, 25 May 2002 18:28:37 -0600 Gary Lee <gary2a@TELUSPLANET.NET> writes: > regarding vanagon dual fuel conversion and where to put the tanks: > > I've seen a dual fuel (propane/gasoline) 2wd westfalia with all the > propane > tanks under the van. There were at least 4 tanks manifolded > together. He > had two of the tanks where the spare tire goes, the spare was > carried on the > roof. > > I've heard of a couple air cooled dual fuel conversions in Calgary, > but have > never seen one myself. I'm sure I could > build one, only one thing different than water cooled. > > I have my tank under the rear westfalia seat, a trade off for space > but I > don't mind. > > On another topic, I just completed converting my BMW 528E to dual > fuel. > > Gary > http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/rack/propane/propane.htm > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. |
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