theconrodkid
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 06:07 PM |
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BMW 540 LPG
i have been offered a 540 V8 for silly money,i know they drink like a fish but was thinking about an LPG conversion.
anyone know how much to get it done,problems etc?
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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tomblyth
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 06:14 PM |
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About a grand ! need to know what year, later ones will go on fully sequenchal system early ones on mixer ! and it will run mint!
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 06:51 PM |
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it,s a 2000 and that is more than the cost of the car
maybe i could dump a perkins under the bonnet
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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mark chandler
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 07:16 PM |
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About £1k to do yourself with new stuff, you could probally get a second hand set off a range rover for around £500, that's all I got for my
sequential system when I sold it.
Regards Mark
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mark chandler
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 07:16 PM |
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About £1k to do yourself with new stuff, you could probally get a second hand set off a range rover for around £500, that's all I got for my
sequential system when I sold it.
Regards Mark
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Guinness
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 07:26 PM |
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Is it an auto or a manual? I'll have the box / engine if its a manual! 
I used to run one as a daily driver. 20 mpg was the best I could get on the motorway, less than 12 around town.
If it's a green estate with a rusty boot, walk away 
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britishtrident
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 07:36 PM |
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A bit over 20 hours to fit a fit yourself.
A stag 300-8 front end kit will cost about 300 notes
Then you need a tank of at least 70litres and multivalve, filler, vent pipes, poly flex pipe ,Pclips and a selection wiring bits and prices say
another 300.
Should come out less than £650
Running cost on LPG vary greatly depending on price of lpg in your area and distance from LPG station. But in my are it works out at half the
cost of running on petrol.
Link http://www.autogas-lpg.co.uk/ -- site is not working at the moment it was working earlier today.
[Edited on 29/4/10 by britishtrident]
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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Simon
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 08:24 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by theconrodkid
..and that is more than the cost of the car
You mean you have to pay for it
I was offered one for nothing - let it get scrapped
ATB
Simon
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Antnicuk
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| posted on 29/4/10 at 08:32 PM |
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the best car i have owned todate! 540 on LPG. I paid to have it done and it cost me £1500 4 years ago. it paid for itself in a year.
The cars are brilliant, and i am selling my M3 to buy another!
600 BHP per ton, Stylus Brought back from the dead! Turbo Rotary Powered!
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 30/4/10 at 05:28 AM |
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You mean you have to pay for it
I was offered one for nothing - let it get scrapped
wash your mouth out
it,s one of Germany,s finest we are talking about here
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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sebastiaan
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| posted on 30/4/10 at 06:30 AM |
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If you do go for it, don't use a multivalve tank as they are terribly slow to fill. Get a proper multihole tank and flexible 1/2" filler
hose. I've done some measurements in the past and they fill up to twice as fast. Fairly important in a high fuel consumption car with a big
tank....
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britishtrident
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| posted on 30/4/10 at 06:56 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by sebastiaan
If you do go for it, don't use a multivalve tank as they are terribly slow to fill. Get a proper multihole tank and flexible 1/2" filler
hose. I've done some measurements in the past and they fill up to twice as fast. Fairly important in a high fuel consumption car with a big
tank....
Shouldn't be probs with a multivalve, the filling line is smaller than a a single hole but it really should take long to fill. At fill ups my
60 litre tank takes 48 litres and it dosen't long to fill, I usually spend much longer in queue waiting for the pump.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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sebastiaan
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| posted on 30/4/10 at 07:10 AM |
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You can use a mulitvalve if you like, a multihole is just quicker, which is partly because of the thinner filler line often used (8mm copper most of
the time) and partly because of the multivalve itself. The wife's car has a multivalve tank but with a proper filling line and is OK-ish to
fill. My own car (multihole, proper filling line) is a lot faster.
As said, I did the measurements some years ago when I still worked as an LPG system development engineer and the difference can be >50%. Given the
large tank you'd need, I would soon be fed up with a slow filling system....
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