LPG fitting
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HBFS

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803 posts

217 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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I've heard about LPG being incompatible with forced induction (FI) cars, but yet I've heard of FI cars having LPG...

So, could I have LPG installed on my Fabia vRS, which has an auto box along with a turbo and a supercharger?
Would there be any technical issues, that would perhaps void or not warrant the fuel savings?

I do enough mileage to realize the ROI in a decent amount of time.
I'm not bothered about loosing boot space
I'd look to get it done at around 60k miles when my warranty runs out in about 8 months time.

I've gotten to the point where, I can afford to put plenty more fuel in the tank. But I struggle to justify the cost, I'm paying £23 per 100 miles or so.

matthias73

2,901 posts

176 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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Not trying to be a pain here but I know nothing about LPG but in 20 seconds I could tell you that if you get the correct fit, it works quite well.

http://www.go-lpg.co.uk/Turbo.html

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

281 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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For anything more than low boost applications a vapor injection system typically can't physically inject enough gas into the engine at WOT, and it doesn't provide the cooling the the valves and piston that a high performance forced induction engine needs. In these systems the petrol injectors are switched back on under more demanding conditions.

Liquid phase injection is being developed, though I don't know if there are any systems actually on the market within the UK (it's sold in Australia and NZ). These have the potential to remove the limitations of vapor phase systems, and potentialy make even more power than running on petrol. It's a far more complex system with much higher pressures involved, so will be significantly more expensive.

Liquid Tuna

1,403 posts

182 months

Tuesday 15th May 2012
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Taking the above into account, you'll need to find out what the cut off is. I had a chipped (running higher pressure) A6 2.7 twin turbo and that ran on LPG without any problems at all.