My CNG conversion

[Fortress]

Thanks for the info.

[Genie47]

I got a strange effect in my car when using CNG. The A/C became more efficient.

 

Daughters are saying A/C colder than normal and I have been using my normal fuel saving position on the control knob.

 

Then I realized my car is small. The cylinder is just right behind them. As the gas slowly releases it's pressure, the cylinder cools!

 

So the cylinder became somewhat like an A/C!

 

3 days of usage already. Now cylinder LED has 2 lighted up out of 4 green ones. Distance traveled in 130km.

 

As usual, petrol starts in the morning. So I do not really know how much of it is on gas.

[Reng]

Bro Genie47,what is the weight of the cylinder and did your pick up speed suffer,what about going up slope?

[Tanlee]

i disagreed on 3/4 rule is to protect malaysia interest.

 

imagine all these people bids $$$ for petrol site, petrol taxes... this is $$$ to MIW.

 

tanlee.

[Genie47]

No trouble upslope. The cylinder weighs like a full grown adult packed into your boot.

[Genie47]

That is right but the Malaysians will not like the Causeway jammed with SGers going in for their petrol either since theirs is subsidized. That is tax dollars given freely to away.

 

They did try to stop people from Thailand coming in from the north for petrol.

[Mubarakrashid]

They are bringing the smaller cylinder for undercarriage mounting. If can, I will mount second or third tank undercarriage. Problem is they dunno LTA's reaction.

 

wah... with 2nd and 3rd tanks, your ride may end up like a KC-130..

[Cyberet]

 

next time i can fold down my rear seats for additional cooling

[Lgt1977]

bro genie, is there a way to switch from gas to petrol at ur own will and vis versa?

[Genie47]

You can manually switch and it is also switched automatically by the system.

[Genie47]

I just finished the cylinder.

 

With the jams yesterday morning and evening and the day before, didn't clock a lot of highway miles. Possibly 40-50% highway miles since I got the installation.

 

220km from 10kg of gas.

 

So if you do the math.

 

Pump SG CNG at $1.05/kg

 

$10.50 gives me 220km = $0.04/km (4 cents/km economy) = $4/100km

 

Pump JB CNG at $0.35/kg

 

$3.50 gives me 220km = $0.01/km ( 1 cent/km economy) = $1/100km

 

Mind you the system is not well tuned yet. I get a lot of hesitation and jerks from 1500-2000RPM. The system shines at 2300-2500RPM on cruising (85-90kph).

 

OK Compare that with petrol.

 

Pump SG RON92 petrol. $1.632/L (not including discount)

Pump JB RON92 petrol. $0.83/L

 

Car economy is 7.692L/100km (converted from 13km/L, judicious travel at 70kph on highways).

 

SG petrol = $12.55/100km

JB petrol = $6.38/100km

 

This is a no brainer. Even pump SG CNG, you still save.

 

OK how I know it ran out.

 

Was travelling down to Vivocity for Spidey premier (another thread story, I didn't watch due to restriction of civil liberties). Halfway when exited at Alexandra, system started beeping and the car all of a sudden got smooth power. I know the cylinder ran out. Look at the odo and it shows 220km.

 

The only irritating thing is that the beeper will beep continuously w/o stop. You got to manually press the button to stop it beeping.

 

Where got aftermarket mod out there that can give $4 or $1 per 100km economy?

Edited April 26, 2007 by Genie47

[Southpark2000]

*sigh*

 

when is honda bringing in theri Honda Civic NG version....

[Cyberet]

anyway now that promotion is over, its $2.6k for mixer, another additional .8 will get the sequential, hmm...

seems like sequential maybe a better choice now even though i've got a metal intake manifold

[Genie47]

Over already ah?

 

I got pictures. Just need to resize them a little here and there.

[Cyberet]

 

anyway, any idea do they offer interest free cc installments?

[Genie47]

DBS credit cards only.

[Kiatmobile]

3.4k total. They replaced my battery so it is 3.5k.

 

Why do they need to replace your car battery?

What's the purpose?

[Cyberet]

ahh.. gd, a quick calculation based on 12mths installment, + JB gas is similar to the amt of petrol i spend a month. if they have 24mths, that'll instantly reduce my monthly expenditure on fuel

 

maybe can suggest to them as another marketing point for additional discount

Edited April 26, 2007 by Cyberet