minitest - GS450h

You've bought an MX-5 and named it after a newsgroup person I've never met?

No and no, sadly. Although it's another idea to float past Charlie...

"So, Charlie - how do you feel about getting an MX-5 and calling it 'Lordy'? He's some feller off usenet."

That's probably going to work better than say something crazy like, "hey, you met me on t'internet, let me go over, win you and your family over, persuade you to marry and then move to Norwich?"

'Cos like that one would never work.

*goes off to justify MX-5 running to self*

"And is therefore entirely fictitious unless proven otherwise."

I would imagine finding somewhere for the tanks would be more of an issue in a pious, because the spare space is batteries.

Unless you got an LPG system that could start from cold on gas and replace the petrol tank with a custom LPG one.

If Dervy was married to me, I'd say yes!

I was determined to prove that you can start a car from cold on lpg and actually had mine set up like that for a while, but it was rubbish. It was not at all friendly to drive when you forced it to run cold on gas. I may have said different at the time, but I would have been lying. Nowadays, it starts on petrol and flicks onto LPG once.

1)The coolant is above 20 degrees C 2) The engine is running over 2000rpm 3) The engine is decelerating.

With those settings, you can't feel the change.

Well, he's only human bless him. And I do have a thing for red-heads :)

I don't know why though - it's perfectly possible to do it with no problems at all. I had use of a couple of pick-ups once, both V8s, both LPG, no problems starting or running on gas even in the middle of a British Columbian winter. Maybe it is a symptom of the engine design rather than the fuel, but many cars and pick-ups run on LPG only over there, with no problems.