Gas conversion

[campingstoveman]

Gentlemen,

I am seriously considering converting my 3500 P6 to LPG, my brother has located a source of second hand kits removed from early Carb scrapped Range Rover's and we have a friend who has a business converting vehicles who will look over the installation and confirm its fitness for us.
Have any of you done this and did it prove worth the effort.

Martin P

 

[quattro]

I have an LPG conversion on my daily driver, a 2.7L turbo Audi.

It does 26mph on Petrol and 22 mpg on gas.

I can get LPG for 43.9p/L so yes it certainly is worth the effort.

I haven't tried it yet on the V8 but will do as soon as I have sorted many other issues with it

 

[chrisyork]

Only real snag on the P6 is where to put the gas tank. The boot is already small! When I was doing the Thai and English cars I used a 65ltr elyptical section cylinder tank. To get it below the line of the plinths either side of the boot well we had to drop the boot floor around 1 1/2", which didn't appear to be an issue in terms of grounding. The boot was then completed with a side to side flat floor level with the tops of the plinths. I actually had the rear decker modded to have a mirror image filler on the drivers side by canibalising the filler depression out of a second decker. It needed a s,all amount of mod to the base unit as well and then a second filler cap wasgrafted onto the top of the gas filler and the result looked just like a twin tank Jag - you couldn't tell, even close up, that it wasn't a second petrol filler. A boot mount for the spare restored some boot space! You're likely to want uprated rear springs as well.

For yours you may be a bit limited by what tank the RR had?

Chris

 

[j_radcliffe]

it is a very common conversion in Australia. I have not personally had anything to do with such a conversion, but maybe if you got in touch with one of the Rover clubs in Australia they might be able to point you in the direction of someone who has had experience with this.

Regards,

James.