Ngv Conversions

[duratanium]

As a point of interest, I've just come back from looking at an 18 wheeler converted to NGV. She is a 48 tonne cement truck doing runs up to the Chinese border from Nakhon Sawan as well as more local trips.

Strapped behind the cab in a cage are 6 BIG gas tanks.

Seems this truck will do 1200 kilometres on 3000 baht of gas where before the conversion it would do the same trip for near 10,000 baht of diesel.

On a mountainous run he can do 360 kilometres for 1400 Baht.

NGV currently costing 9.5 baht here in N.S. abt the same as LPG would be.

The conversion itself cost 100,000 baht and the engine runs so quiet now.

I realise this may not equate well to a pick up conversion but it does go to show that a good NGV conversion can work very well on the financial side.

Plus, for him, he can sleep at the side of the road now without fear of being held up for the diesel in his tank

[Jing-jo]

As a point of interest, I've just come back from looking at an 18 wheeler converted to NGV. She is a 48 tonne cement truck doing runs up to the Chinese border from Nakhon Sawan as well as more local trips.

Strapped behind the cab in a cage are 6 BIG gas tanks.

Seems this truck will do 1200 kilometres on 3000 baht of gas where before the conversion it would do the same trip for near 10,000 baht of diesel.

On a mountainous run he can do 360 kilometres for 1400 Baht.

NGV currently costing 9.5 baht here in N.S. abt the same as LPG would be.

The conversion itself cost 100,000 baht and the engine runs so quiet now.

I realise this may not equate well to a pick up conversion but it does go to show that a good NGV conversion can work very well on the financial side.

Plus, for him, he can sleep at the side of the road now without fear of being held up for the diesel in his tank

have converted three cars i own to LPG

really economical and quite easy to fit BUT the cooling system has to be spot on as the gas burns hotter than the petrol and it WILL find any weaknesses in your cooling or fuelling you can also run lpg on modified cars but it gets a little bit more complicated

I have a vw mk2 scirroco with a later mk3 vw golf engine and a turbo diesel gearbox gives the equivalant to 100mpg compared to unleaded petrol prices

cheers