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[Bixy1]

Good question, just thinking the same myself. However, my online quote came to £1700. 
It is an 11 year old car with 153000 on the clock. :-/
MF is probably right in my case.

[tunnie]

£1.7k is about right for a 'professional' job,

It all depends on what millage you do, and how long you will keep the car, mines at 137k, and just been done. But it runs smoother and better than 85k when i bought it.

Expect to pay around £700 DIY costs, its much cheaper and quicker to pay back this way, it also would have been done right.

If you do want to go professional route, as them this -> Do you drill the inlet manifold in place or do you remove it?

Post back what they say 

[TheBoy]

£1.7k is about right for a 'professional' job,

It all depends on what millage you do, and how long you will keep the car, mines at 137k, and just been done. But it runs smoother and better than 85k when i bought it.

Expect to pay around £700 DIY costs, its much cheaper and quicker to pay back this way, it also would have been done right.

If you do want to go professional route, as them this -> Do you drill the inlet manifold in place or do you remove it?

Post back what they say 

Under £500 for 4pot, under £600 for v6

[tunnie]

£1.7k is about right for a 'professional' job,

It all depends on what millage you do, and how long you will keep the car, mines at 137k, and just been done. But it runs smoother and better than 85k when i bought it.

Expect to pay around £700 DIY costs, its much cheaper and quicker to pay back this way, it also would have been done right.

If you do want to go professional route, as them this -> Do you drill the inlet manifold in place or do you remove it?

Post back what they say 

Under £500 for 4pot, under £600 for v6

Thats if someone answers their phone 

[Boatboy]

At under £600 it starts to sound interesting even on low annual mileage. Question though, how warm does the engine have to be before the gas cuts in? Be a shame to still run on petrol right up to the company car park after only a 4.5 mile commute.

Steve

[Entwood]

I can't say on the stag system .. but my BRC system is on gas within 1/2 a mile from overnight usually. It did get to 1 mile when the temp was down to -5 !!! If the car has been used within the last 3 hours it is less than 30 seconds.

The BRC system CANNOT be started on gas as it uses a pressure switch on the gas manifold as a control... I believe some systems can be started on gas however

HTH 

[tunnie]

if warm started mine cuts in at 10 seconds, apart from a relay clicking in the boot you cannot tell!

Cold start, takes about 30 seconds to 1 min, its slightly slower than the V6, as i find the 4pots take an age to warm up from cold

[cem_devecioglu]

£1.7k is about right for a 'professional' job,

It all depends on what millage you do, and how long you will keep the car, mines at 137k, and just been done. But it runs smoother and better than 85k when i bought it.

Expect to pay around £700 DIY costs, its much cheaper and quicker to pay back this way, it also would have been done right.

If you do want to go professional route, as them this -> Do you drill the inlet manifold in place or do you remove it?

Post back what they say 

important question.. I was planning to install a BRC system .. a friend behaved quicker and installed this system and they did exactly drill in situ..

and when I asked they say the drill bits work reverse ..

DA..    I give up..

[Boatboy]

Re cut in temp:-

Not the issue I thought it was then.

Cheers guys

[Lazydocker]

if warm started mine cuts in at 10 seconds, apart from a relay clicking in the boot you cannot tell!

Cold start, takes about 30 seconds to 1 min, its slightly slower than the V6, as i find the 4pots take an age to warm up from cold

Only because that's what we set it to... Could have set it to anything from 1 second up (IIRCC) but, because of the startup enrichment, it makes sense to get moving before it switches

[UrbanFox]

£1.7k is about right for a 'professional' job,

It all depends on what millage you do, and how long you will keep the car, mines at 137k, and just been done. But it runs smoother and better than 85k when i bought it.

Expect to pay around £700 DIY costs, its much cheaper and quicker to pay back this way, it also would have been done right.

If you do want to go professional route, as them this -> Do you drill the inlet manifold in place or do you remove it?

Post back what they say 

Under £500 for 4pot, under £600 for v6

Wanna do mine when I get it? LOL 

[2woody]

there are three very important points often overlooked.....

ONE. you can still drive a petrol without having to consider diseasel

TWO. LPG has at least 110 octane and possibly 120 according to who you talk to - so huge performance potential

THREE. it gives you the chance to stick two fingers up to the one-eyed Scottish idiot - and it's got to be worth £1700 just to do that.

[Kevin Wood]

...

TWO. LPG has at least 110 octane and possibly 120 according to who you talk to - so huge performance potential
....

Worth having a look at liquid phase LPG injection on the performance front. Not far off the energy density of petrol with a built-in chargecooler. 

Kevin

[edwarda]

Hi i am also considering LPG for my 2.2 cdx 53 plate can anyone tell me if the MPG readout still works when your on LPG. [smiley=huh.gif]

[Entwood]

Hi i am also considering LPG for my 2.2 cdx 53 plate can anyone tell me if the MPG readout still works when your on LPG. [smiley=huh.gif]

YES it does .. but the readout is as if you were still using petrol .... 

The LPG ECU does NOT replace the petrol ECU, it works "with" it ... and just switches off the injectors, so all the MID features still "thinks" you are burning petrol ..