LPG Conversion

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:20 am

I was thinking about it before, but rather than just having a straight conversion I wanted the car to run both. So petrol on cold start which it does anyway but on WOT or vtec it switches to petrol and uses the LPG for cruising down the motorway or pootling around town.

Not sure how the car would run if the fuel switches on vtec engagement, I know both lines would stay pressurised but don't know enough about it.

Post by **4thgenphil** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:06 pm

really i had a look around on accordr and couldnt find anything about it unless it's been recently!

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:34 pm

how much weight does the kit add to the car in total? and, long term, how much does that cost to carry about?

and how much does it slow you down

toyracer69 · Post by **toyracer69** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:31 pm

A1ex wrote:I was thinking about it before, but rather than just having a straight conversion I wanted the car to run both. So petrol on cold start which it does anyway but on WOT or vtec it switches to petrol and uses the LPG for cruising down the motorway or pootling around town.

Not sure how the car would run if the fuel switches on vtec engagement, I know both lines would stay pressurised but don't know enough about it.

From what little I know about LPG, they all start on petrol.

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:29 am

My 4g bb4 has an LPG conversion and it's brilliant! Performance is affected slightly, but I can live with that when i'm running almost half-price fuel and if I see something I want to race I just push the switch-over button to flick between LPG and unleaded at will.
The car has to start on petrol but when its up to temperature (usually after 1 mile) it flicks over to gas automatically, its unlikely to switch over during VTEC engagement as the LPG is ready before VTEC (from a cold start). The car still VTEC's fine on gas too..
I have a long range fuel tank so I lost the narrow part of my boot space but I can still get the shopping in there

As far as economy goes I get about 60miles to £15 of unleaded and just over 100miles on £15 of LPG (I have an Apexi induction kit and a straight-thru stainless exhaust if you're wondering about my poor unleaded mpg figures).