Interesting!

=A39.82 per gallon surely?

I donno there is certainly something ary with the maths...

Lee had a V8 doing half the MPG than a diesel. So if diesel becomes twic= e the price of petrol, V8's become are cheaper to run even though they bur= n twice the quantity of fuel.

At todays prices with petrol at 112p/l that would mean diesel at or over= over 224p/l.

Yep! just testing! ;-)

Lee D

On or around Wed, 21 May 2008 17:27:01 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

It's fecking well headed that way anyhow, but I reckon the petrol will more or less keep pace.

I donno there is certainly something ary with the maths...

Lee had a V8 doing half the MPG than a diesel. So if diesel becomes twice the price of petrol, V8's become are cheaper to run even though they burn twice the quantity of fuel.

At todays prices with petrol at 112p/l that would mean diesel at or over over 224p/l.

Well my V8 does 22mpg in my hybrid, so is that far better then a deisel? :-)

Gary xx

Convert the V8 to LPG and you're already there. - 57.9pplor less.

But you don't get the same MPG on LPG as you do on petrol do you? ISTR comments in here that it's noticeably lower.

Slightly lower - about 10% on a decent system

Yes, but its not HALF the economy!

Steve

Is that the best you can ever expect, or can you tune things any better ?

Steve

IME yes thats the best you will get. That was on our 3.9 v8 Multipoint injection system.

:-(

Lee D

Won't be long...don't know how it is going over there, but over here, 2 weeks ago at the cheap supermarket garage it was 1,28? / l, last week

On or around Sat, 24 May 2008 23:53:01 +0100, "Lee_D" enlightened us thusly:

there's no need to be miserable about it. That's pretty good. As a rule of thumb, if you get less than 80% of the petrol economy, there's summat wrong with it, regardless of system. good modern system can get up to 90% as you noted. The reason is simple: Propane (and most autogas in this country is mostly propane) has less specific energy per litre then petrol. Diesel has more, hence why a modern diesel will out-economy a petrol engine, like-for-like.

Nevertheless, with LPG typically about half the price of petrol, you can get something close to diesel fuel costs on LPG.

Less so now, but traditionally, the V8s outperformed the diesels in the LR range by a good margin. And they sound better :-)

Blimely where is that Matt? Last week (14th) I paid 1.22, yesterday (24th) the same place was 127. I did see my first advertised 131 though. (Tesco J43 M6). All I bought was 25l of unleaded to pour into her indoors motor, cheaper than buying at the local place and as I was there and will last a while as she doesn't do a great mileage.

The diesel/unlead gap had also got wider again to 13p/l.

Yes but you're talking euros, that's still not over a pound a litre.

Martin

I bought some Euros last Wednesday via a French ATM & the rate was ?1.06 to the pound, allowing for the bank charges.

Shell diesel pump price in Le Touquet on Thursday was ?1.46 per litre.

About £1.37 per litre.

Tciao for Now!

John.

Being one of those sad people who likes to keep very detailed records, I can say that over a period of time (4 years currently analysed) and taking into account various driving conditions, there is absolutely NO discernable difference in economy between petrol and LPG. If anything, LPG fairs a bit better when gently cruising on the motorway as it doesn't need lots of 'power'.

Around town LPG fairs a tad worse - but on balance, no discernable difference.

Good. That's something to aim for. Simon I. can get 18 mpg on his 101 AMBI, why can I only get 10....

Tinley tech ECU, power valve, lambda probe and TPS all fitted, time to wire them up..

Steve