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Teflon-Mike
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PostPosted: 21:39 - 08 Apr 2011    Post subject: Re: LPG conversion on steroids Reply with quote
warped one wrote:
For those who have been complaining about high petrol prices, try LPG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6H85GhCetw&feature=player_embedded

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Wouldn't get through UK SVA test......

That's an 'internal' LPG tank strapped on the carrier, would have to be a heavier 'external' tank, and held down with two spring steel straps.......
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PostPosted: 21:49 - 08 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
In the event of a crash if the LPG tank ruptured, how stable is it?
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PostPosted: 21:57 - 08 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's quite a beast.
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PostPosted: 22:41 - 08 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Would have thought it'd do better than 80mph but don't know if i'd want to try it
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PostPosted: 22:49 - 08 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
I MUST OWN THIS!! i want that soo bad! its got the one thing CG rat is lacking a bit more power someone buy it for me! il find a way to SVA it!!
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PostPosted: 23:06 - 08 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jim Mc wrote:
In the event of a crash if the LPG tank ruptured, how stable is it?


If you crashed hard enough to rupture an LPG tank, you're probably not going to be alive enough to care. The same can be said for gas bottles. I've seen trucks smashed to holy shit in a fatal accident where the gas bottles being carried were fine. Even if there were a leak gas doesn't explode like TNT it's burning is limited by the speed at which it mixes with air, so you'd get a rising fireball. This happend to my mates flat from a gas leak, the flat was demolished, but everyone survived with only a few burns.
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PostPosted: 23:27 - 08 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
correct me if im wrong but has he put a car engine that already had a gas conversion into a bike frame?
Theres no reason why you cant do this to any bike in theory. Theres a few extra bits you need to fit in sure. I mean you would struggle to fit them into a sports bike, but someting with more room around the frame should be fine.
Fitting the bottle would be the problem, Im 90% sure I saw a thread years ago about this and somone was wondering how possible it would be to use the hollow frame that some bikes have to store the LPG.
Although people may say that in order to break the tank he would probably have had a fatal accident anyway...What if the tank simply fell off the back and blew up some old guy in a metro behind him.
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PostPosted: 23:33 - 08 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
I so love the shocks. Long live countries that allow their citizens to build such deathtraps Karma Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 02:35 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
There is a guy round here that has a LPG tank on the back of his bike.
Done the conversion himself.
He rates it.
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PostPosted: 06:59 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jim Mc wrote:
In the event of a crash if the LPG tank ruptured, how stable is it?


Probably safer than your petrol tank.

The risks are different to petrol - leaking LPG carries the risk of cold burns but since the fuel will flash-off very quickly there's no puddle of fuel to catch fire.
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PostPosted: 07:32 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
KAL9000 wrote:
correct me if im wrong but has he put a car engine that already had a gas conversion into a bike frame?

Without using google translate it looks like it started as a CZ175 but has a 1.3 Lada Samara (car) engine in it now
He has a full size car battery on the pillion seat.

Here's one, it looks suspiciously like a Talbot Sunbeam which could be made quite fast and had minor success in rallying in the 80s
https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5096/5468866003_667709deda.jpg
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PostPosted: 07:46 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 10:04 - 09 Apr 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Awesome clutch lever.
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