I have put propane fumigation systems on turbodiesel jettas. A fair bit of work but it worked good. In the quest to get more power out of a diesel, I'd turn up the fueling first. That only takes 3 minutes of your time. I'm not sure the VW diesel block and head can stand much more output when used in the heavy vanagon. The oil temp in my TD westy would go through the roof on long hills. Exhaust gas temp would get too high as well. Water temp would be normal. I would suggest to anybody who has modified their turbo diesel to get a pyrometer for the exhaust. On hills, I would basically drive only as fast as the pyrometer told me I could. Intercooling worked as expected, for every degree you lowered the charge temp, the EGT would be lowered by the same amount. Propane powered vanagon http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/rack/propane/propane.htm Gary Lee |
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