MY Profile LPG Karl 2 V70 T5s (2001)
 

OK gents
long time looker new poster,
Previous cars
1994 WRX hatch final was no longer a WRX!
280KW at the wheels 2.4L stroker closed decks, Modena engineering dog box etc etc, built the whole lot myself, took alot of time and a lot of money.
check it out...
http://autospeed.com/cms/A_1519/printArticle.html

Since then got married -bought MX5 to run around in.
Had child no 1 bought 1998 V70R in saffron. sold a year ago and
Had child no 2 bought 2001 T5 with about 50,000miles on it (had that 1 year now)
Couple of months ago bought 2nd T5 with about 75,000 miles on it.
It has sunroof and built-in phone (which is great)
This week sold the MX5.

Both of my cars are running on LPG also known on your side of the world as propane gas.

After Govt rebates it costs about $3000 AUD to convert them and "gas" costs about 1/3 what petrol does over here. Both cars have donut tanks in the spare wheel well so no interior space is compromised.

Car 1 has LPG vapor injection by BRC
http://www.ozonlpg.com/systems.html-this is a top of the line system for a vapor system and uses a converter to boil the liquid (taps into heater lines) into a gas, starts on petrol and when temp gets to 1/4 or more will switch over to gas. This system yields for the most part the same performance as on petrol and rate of consumption is only slightly higher than petrol.

Car 2 has LPG liquid injection (JTG)
http://www.icomitalia.it/lang1/imp_jtg.html
liquid injection has some advantages -is injected as a liquid thus as it changes phase to a gas a significant cooling effect is provided to the incoming air charge gas vaporises at -20 deg F or so.
Result (dyno proven) is a 21KW ATW gain with NO TUNING whatsoever!:D

Next steps.......
BRC car is limited to ~200KW as after this cannot supply gas fast enough and will switch over to petrol, thus no mods for this car.
JTG car -next 3" exhaust and some suspension tweaks:rolleyes::rolleyes:, perhaps some R brakes if I crack 160KW ATW (currently makes 142KW ATW.

Why two different gas systems?
JTG system was not available 12 months ago when I converted the 1st car.:(

Why convert to LPG at all? experience shows that anything you can do to reduce cost of ownership with Volvos the better!!!!! as inevitably something will break and the pennies saved will pay for the things that need fixing all the time!!:eek: