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Author Topic: Well, it runs.. on LPG.  (Read 2258 times)

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Kevin Wood

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Well, it runs.. on LPG.
« on: 19 July 2008, 21:35:55 »

Been a funny day. Put the finishing touches to the LPG install, decided to take it out and fill it with gas.

First gas station - nozzle wouldn't connect properly (may have been user error ::)), second station was out of gas, third and fourth were on the map but couldn't find them in reality. Ended up filling at a motorway services at vast expense (but less than petrol) and burning about 1/4 of a tank of petrol for 1 tank of LPG. Still, it filled nice and quickly to 65 litres and shut of (right on the money for an 80L tank).

Anyway, switched over to LPG. Ran like a bag of spanners. >:(

Looked at the live data and the two lambda loops are going mad fighting each other. Then I noticed the injector durations on the two banks were up and down like a yo-yo, and of each bank there was one injector duration that was dissimilar to the other 2.

Eventually it dawned on me. I'd got the injector signals for cylinders 2 and 3 swapped over. ::)

Plenum off, re-wire, back together and it runs on LPG like a dream. With no manual tweaking after an initial auto-calibrate it's within 5% deviation across the board and runs just like it does on petrol.

A successful day - in a round-about way. :-/

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Re: Well, it runs.. on LPG.
« Reply #1 on: 19 July 2008, 21:54:09 »

Good news (eventually). Glad everything is on track  :y
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Re: Well, it runs.. on LPG.
« Reply #2 on: 19 July 2008, 21:57:43 »

Nice one Kevin good to know that it works well. With the price of petrol may be looking to do the same just have to put some pennys aside .

Very well done. Hope you are doing well.

Steve. :y :y
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Re: Well, it runs.. on LPG.
« Reply #3 on: 19 July 2008, 22:10:25 »

cracking news Kevin  :y
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« Reply #4 on: 19 July 2008, 22:21:08 »

Nice one Kevin :y
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Re: Well, it runs.. on LPG.
« Reply #5 on: 19 July 2008, 22:33:40 »

kev, make your way up here tomorrow!!
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« Reply #6 on: 19 July 2008, 22:56:44 »

I can feel the warm glow of satisfaction from here  ;D -well done.  :y
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« Reply #7 on: 19 July 2008, 23:25:16 »

Well done :y
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« Reply #8 on: 19 July 2008, 23:31:21 »

Well done Kevin.....when may we see some pictures (please)? :y
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Re: Well, it runs.. on LPG.
« Reply #9 on: 19 July 2008, 23:33:27 »

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Well done Kevin.....when may we see some pictures (please)? :y

I'll take some more and post them. I took pictures at every step to start with. Then, I'm ashamed to say, I slipped gradually into "get the 'kin thing finished" mode. ;D

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Re: Well, it runs.. on LPG.
« Reply #10 on: 19 July 2008, 23:38:35 »

Good result...... :y :y
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« Reply #11 on: 19 July 2008, 23:44:28 »

Well Done Kevin, Yet another home brewed LPG. :y :y :y
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« Reply #12 on: 20 July 2008, 05:40:53 »

Glad to hear it's finished Kevin!  :y :y :y :y
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« Reply #13 on: 20 July 2008, 07:51:16 »

Well done Kevin, a good result :y
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Re: Well, it runs.. on LPG.
« Reply #14 on: 20 July 2008, 12:43:37 »

Strange how it ran with so little deviation after calibration, when my V6 would hardly pull at all, until it was mapped  :-/

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