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Mazda 6 1800cc.
It gives good performance and does quite well on fuel, |
| We fitted a 61 litre toroidal tank in the spare wheel well. Go LPG are constantly looking for ways to raise safety standards. The multivalve and filler point are completely outside of the vehicle's body, giving optimum protection from gas entering the vehicle during a tank safety valve release or when removing the filler gun. The coil in the filler pipe ensures that the pipe will not be ruptured or pulled out in the event of a rear-end shunt. |
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| The underbonnet shows little evidence of conversion. The LPG Vaporiser / reducer unit can just be seen behind the air cleaner. We fitted 'Flashlube' to this car as a precaution, seen on the lower left of the picture. Moderen Japanese cars are well known to have soft engine valves. |
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| The LPG filler fits neatly in the unused and blanked off exhaust cut-out in the rear bumper.
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| BRC Sequent 24 (Multi point sequential gas injection) equipment was used for this job. The latest style (circular) fuel choice switch can be seen here mounted on the Driver's right, easily visible but not intrusive at night. It is practically impossible to tell which fuel you are running on without looking at this because the car's performance is so good on LPG. Even the owner couldn't find a difference between fuels when he road tested the car. |
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Fuel economy........
Given that petrol is around 2.4 times the price of LPG, this gave an equivalent fuel economy figure of 60mpg in terms of what it would have cost on petrol.
Who said that smaller cars are not worth converting to LPG?
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