Lpg on carbs - gen me up pleez.

[tigran]

Hey guys, LPG is a totally dark art to me, but i'm thinking of how to run my sd1 cheaper. The one idea that comes up is lpg. It's a carbed (twin su's) 3.5 rover v8 - is there any way i can run lpg on this without having to go down the injection route? If so - how.

Thanks for any help. Would love to keep this car, just can't at the mo with the ammount it's costing me.

[akku]

Yup, you need a carb "hat" - theres loads on eBay for the Holley carbs so theres an excuse to upgrade... You can gett hem for SU's as well. You'll need the large evaporator too. RPI Engineering sell one specifically for the RV8. They also do twin SU gas heads.

[PhoenixCapri]

I have a brand new, full lgp kit (including tank) for a single carb engine sat in the barn, bought it for Minx and never fitted.

Think it cost me somet like £350, but yours for say £300, ONO? Think its all there but I've never opened the box so I wouldn't know! All you should need though is either a holley carb or another hat for the other SU.

PM me if your interested, though you'll have to pick it up, and as I'm in Sweden will have to arrange it with CR500dom or somet! Though it is an excuse to see the Kadett

[Mr S]

You need mixers like these: www.wtv-uk.co.uk/mixers.htm (they list a pair for the Rover V8 SUs, £72.50 for the pair), then the rest of the kit is the same as a single point system.

Actually, there is a slight difference, you must make sure that the changeover switch is a 3-way one (LPG, Petrol and Off - some are just LPG and Petrol switches). This is so that if you start the car on Petrol, you can switch the petrol supply 'off' for a second or two while you use the petrol that's in the carbs before you introduce the LPG. Otherwise it 'dual fuels' a little too literally and you are trying to burn petrol and LPG at the same time, which makes it far too rich and it apparently doesn't like it at all!

HTH

[2000GLS]

Could you use LPG with bike carbs?

[Mr S]

If you could get mixers to fit, there's no reason I can think of why it wouldn't be possible. The carb just becomes a 'dumb' throttle body really.