LPG or not bother?

I had a Granada lpg 2.0 twin cam once it was the cheapest car to run fuel wise I have ever owned!!

my rekord was already prept for lpg (the tank was already fitted, and the vehicle papers already included lpg. But since i bought it with an destroyed engine i ended up redoing basically everything.
the original engine was a carb engine, en this fairly easy to run on petrol and lpg. the engine i got was a injection engine, and i bought it cheap, but without any electrics, ecu of anything.
It now runs only on LPG, even in this cold cold freezing weather no staring problems, i do need to start it a little longer then when it was summer, moet within 5 seconds it runs perfect.
I don't run it on LPG injection, and I'm not sure how this would work with your audi, but usualy when you convert a injection engine to lpg you get a system with it so you can set it to transfer from pertrol to lpg when it hits 3000 rpm, and then run on lpg for the hole ride.

Def worth it m8

They will run from cold on gas but not as well (on older systems at least) cos the systems uses the heat from the engines cooling system to warm the liquid into a gas (the L in LPG stands for liquid) on cold mornings you may find it simply wont run as the ambiant temp isn't enough to boil the liquid into a gas, in the same way some gas heaters wont work on butane below certain temps for the same reason, not boiling off into a gas.

Well I have received a quote for fitment from a local LPG fitting company. Here's the quote:
"AC Multipoint SGI System £1100 inc VAT with 60L spare tyre well tank."

Is that about right? The car is a 1.8 turbo injection and apparently it's the best matched setup to the car.




Cheers for the offer of selling me a tank. However, I wouldn't have a bleedin' clue how to set it all up, and what else to buy!

Main question is, do I get it done?!

Oh, and have a hot picture

I fit lpg systems, have done more than a couple now, obviously run one myself as a daily..

if you do the miles then do it, properly done to an engine capable of running it there's no disadvantage, I'm sorry to sound argumentative but anyone who disagrees with this is talking manure..

Most installs are complete sh1te, I do mean COMPLETE sh1te badly chosen badly fitted and badly setup, 99.9% of problems are down to the installers..

Bigas, Romano, OMVL, Tartarini and Zavoli are all names you can trust

Almost all systems are Italian, they do it best, think long and hard before using one of the cheaper ones (usually eastern European) though some of the polish ones are supposed to be pretty good getting spares and support is a minefield. On that sort of car you really should go sequential multipoint.

Single point systems are pretty hateful really, you'll loose plenty of power and about a third of your economy, which is ok if it's a huge yank V8 or your a real old woman behind the wheel, but if you drive hard or have a smaller engine you'll really notice it..

With smaller injectors 2mm or so you can set a cut in temp of around 45 degrees which isn't that hot really, larger injectors like 2.5 or 3mm need to be set at 60 degrees which whilst hotter isn't all that, I run my 4.6 Rangie at 65 degrees switch over and it's always on gas after a mile even in these temps, during the summer it's more like half a mile..

Most engines can be converted, even some unsuitable engines can be run with no problems if you use Flashlube but some imho should never be converted all Ford Zetecs for example.

I'd be wary of a quote that cheap, not to say it'll be bad, just do your research, most installers are completely useless, find personal recommendations from people who have done big miles problem free on a certain installers work, also is that a price for a 4 hole tank or a single?

Well, that's an inspired and educated response for you...

Care to expand on your enlightning post?

See the above quote about curse word polish gear - also applies to Voltran from Turkey!

Just out of curiosity, what is it about zetecs that make LPG a bad idea on them?