Can anyone tell me whether or not a diesel car can be made into a duel fuel car and what the performance difference would be?

Also, has anyone done it to a Scooby as I refuse to pay the congestion charge.....the b8stards

thanks in advance for any help and apologies for the outburst!!

eliot

 

diesel car can be made to run on anything!

 

thanks for the info, don't suppose u know how much it would cost?

eliot

 

I know nothing!

 

Duel fuel - you want a fight with Ken?

Dual fuel - you want to burn LPG? To burn LPG you start with a petrol engine, both petrol and LPG are spark ignited. Diesel engines are compression ignition and can burn a huge range of diesel type fuels, like cooking oil.

Sorry what was the question again?

 

Best place to find out about gas conversions is http://www.powershift.org.uk. J

 

You can use LPG with diesels but it's not a true dual-fuel cos the LPG is only run in addition to the diesel at the same time to either improve economy or power (can't remember!). Probably power I think cos diesel has far higher calorific than LPG.

General concensus is that it ain't worth the bother on a diesel, only use it on a petrol for the cost gains which would make it cheaper than an equivalent diesel anyway. But I wouldn't consider LPGing the scooby.... combination of the turbo and flat-4 will make it very expensive and I wouldn't trust it to not go bang either

 

PS I'd just buy a cheap secondhand car that has already been converted and use that for running into london and keep the scooby for other days. You can buy LPG cars almost as cheap as it would cost for the conversion these days... just get it checked out and make sure the conversion is sound before buying.

 

Diesel cars can even be made to run on cooking oil. Its funny because I'm not even joking. Custom and Excise don't see the funny part of it though.

 

yep I heard about that....apparantly you can smell the cooking oil from the exhaust as they come past you..heh

 

Thanks for all of the info - will probably buy a second car to drive into London thats duel fuel - seems like the easiest option other than digging out my skateboard

eliot

 

If you do buy a car that has had duel fuel conversion make sure it has the ceritificate of fittment for it. The insurance people like to see this.
Cheers.
Ian.

 

good info, thanks for that

eliot

 

Just coz it runs on LPG you won't escape the charge - it also has to be on an approved list....

https://www.cclondon.com/WebCenterBrandedTR4/StaticPages/Drivers.pdf


Colin.