Convert Beetle to Propane?

It's fairly common in the UK:

Speedy Jim

I was considering going that route with the 78 transporter, just because. Wonder what would be involved in getting the type iv f.i. job to run on lpg. probably a tricky task at best... anyone done it/heard of it?

-Matt '75 shovelhead (my baby) '78 transporter (the [fun] attenti> >

In some countries of Europe is farily common to add a second tank to your car, and run it on LPG, due to the lower prices and clean fumes. I do not know the exact process, but I know that it can be done for a bug. Maybe getting in touch with a european beetle club could help, try the british or the dutch.

Ant

matthew j henschel wrote in this friggin' newsgroup:

thanks, that the vital clue we were needing. ;)

informationejaculator wrote in this friggin' newsgroup:

Well, not Beetle related, but my friend owns an 87 RX7. He's in the process of modifying it to run on propane and gasoline. He'll switch off tanks while on the freeway, when he doesn't need all the power of the rotary. He explained it to me in depth some time ago, but I forgot most of what he said except this....

"It's %^&$*(# expensive!"

Just a heads up.

~Anthony

I once wanted to do this. I found it to be more than just a pain in theA$$...............It not only is possible but a huge waste of time , in my estimation. I had located a couple of used cylinders from a ford cop car that had the front end mushed off it by a large tractor, did some calculations on space needed and mind you I stopped early on the calculations due to the fact that any cylinder/s large enough to be of any use, would be so damned heavy they'd cause pretty heavy fuel usage, and they'd also take up so much of the actual usable space in the car, that only a driver and front passenger would be possible., the suspension mods would be pretty strong, and my patience for the whole conversion ran out long before ALL of the necessary other calculations got there................I read a pretty good Bob Hoover writing about this stuff and was intrigued,...............well,..............for a short while anyway.

It's just not feasible for me to deal with it.

maybe some others are more tenacious than I.

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Yeah, it's not uncommon over here in the UK for cars to be converted to lpg. The govt has been giving good tax concessions to lpg fuel....at the moment. You can convert just about any car, including diesel, to lpg - you have a seperate tank for the lpg, some people remove the spare wheel to house the tank and use an aerosol puncture repair kit. You can switch between the two tanks whilst driving, it's almost seamless. The down side is the cost of instalation and the availability of lpg on forecourts. Performance stays roughly the same, it seems to depend on the vehicle being converted.

--Steve