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Hi all,

Does anyone have any experience with people/busines' who do aftermarket LPG fitment in Melbourne? Area, time it took, quality and price woud be great.

I've just inherited a neat daily driver which I'm considering the conversion. I have looked around on the internet this weekend but can find only limited info. The car is a 3.8L commodore (yeah yeah I know, no need for comments) and I want to make it as cheap to run as possible.

I have heard that there are places which will do it for no more than the cost of the govt rebate. Can anyone confirm?

Cheers

Nick

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Where are you in melb?

Simon from NT performance did my SS for me. He's in Footscray. Give him a call on 96873074

I'm in South Melbourne, so Footscray is only 10mins away. I'll give him a call tmw. What did you pay if you dont mind me asking?

I got my 5.0L falcon converted to LPG by PARNELL Gas

They are up in Laverton and they do an awesome job. Only took them 1 day to do mine and it was a very neat factory install.

From memory I had a 70 useable litre tank, factory fuel gauge also doubled as an LPG gauge

Cost was about $2,400 from memory, so only about $400 after I got the rebate from the Government

http://www.parnell.com.au/index.php?option...7&Itemid=41

I'm in South Melbourne, so Footscray is only 10mins away. I'll give him a call tmw. What did you pay if you dont mind me asking?

I actually bought the car off him and he installed the gas for me for free. Obviously he got the rebate. I think it takes about a day to install it. He's a nice guy. Tell him that you got his details from Russell that bought his SS.

doesnt that government rebate thing run out soon, like expires..

just asking cause looking for a daily, and also would like it to be a cheap to run as possible..

when i herd the gov grant was expiring soon, probably better to buy 1 already done then miss out on the rebate????

You can never have the best of both worlds because there is always a compromise. I've had 2 cars on duel fuel.

My first gas car was an old V8 VH Commodore (carby) and it was tuned to suit gas and as a result pinged (knocked) when on petrol because the timing was too advanced.

My new car is a VS SS Commodore.

It doesn't run as well on gas but that's to be expected because it's designed to run on petrol.

It idles high on petrol now (about 1200rpm) to compensate for when it runs on gas (about 600rpm). It can't be the same for both.

Also it loses heaps of power. Had it dyno'd at the RE customs dyno day and it made 130rwkw on petrol and 80rwkw on gas.

I'm really happy with it though because it's cheap to run and is great for towing and if I need more power I just press the petrol button.

If you want a good gas system it would have to be dedicated gas or something like gas research. No good if you run out of gas though. Can't just get a jerry can of gas to get going again!

Due to the higher octane of gas it can actually push more power out of your car than standard fuel if you go ahead and do a full gas conversion so it runs only gas. However that is more expensive.

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