Date:         Sat, 25 May 2002 21:06:10 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: re. MAX out your Propane Capacity / Do propane tanks HAVE to
              be
Comments: To: gary2a@TELUSPLANET.NET
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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
>

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