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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:21 pm 
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I was wondering if taxi's being straight gas have the normal behind the seats gas tank, or wether they have a tank moulded into the orig fuel tank position. Particularly EF/EL taxi's

 

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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:22 pm 
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the original fuel tank comes out - gas tank goes in, but you loose part of your spare tyre depth so you need a space saver wheel (or not have a spare at all)

 

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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 4:46 pm 
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I see, thanks. I wonder if I could get one of these tanks from the wreckers when I go straight gas

 

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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 5:32 pm 
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the original fuel tank comes out - gas tank goes in, but you loose part of your spare tyre depth so you need a space saver wheel (or not have a spare at all)


UMM NO!

when a gas conversion is done the gas tank is placed in the boot behind the rear seats.
and the normal fuel tank stays there, in wagons the spare wheel is moved into the boot on a bracket.

Egas cars... ie dedicated gas non dual fuel have NO petrol tank instead they have 2 gas tanks inplace of the petrol tank.

and like happy said u doo loose some boot space.

not sure how it works on BA's as the petrol tank is under the rear seat

 

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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:03 pm 
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on crewmans the gas tank goes where the spare does, its a donut shape or so im told,,,

totally off topic but frank already answered the question.

 

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On BAs you still lose some of the spare tyre well depth. The spare tyre sticks up further into the boot, as they still have a full size wheel.
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on crewmans the gas tank goes where the spare does, its a donut shape or so im told,,,

hehe bentles thats not a full tank thats called a "spare wheel" tank obviously
it has a Much smaller capacity than the full size tanks, usually used for small cars such as laser,lancers etc that cannot fit the big assed 60+litlre sedan tanks in them

 

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Happy wrote:
the original fuel tank comes out - gas tank goes in, but you loose part of your spare tyre depth so you need a space saver wheel (or not have a spare at all)


UMM NO!

when a gas conversion is done the gas tank is placed in the boot behind the rear seats.
and the normal fuel tank stays there, in wagons the spare wheel is moved into the boot on a bracket.

Egas cars... ie dedicated gas non dual fuel have NO petrol tank instead they have 2 gas tanks inplace of the petrol tank.

and like happy said u doo loose some boot space.

not sure how it works on BA's as the petrol tank is under the rear seat

he was only referring to straight gas cars though frank!

 

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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:25 pm 
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he also refered to 'mainly EF/EL'
there wasnt any straight LPG EF/EL's :)

 

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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:38 am 
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I thaught there were but I guess I was mistaken.. Im basically interested in any petrol tank replacement options, the details of what comes with what arent important.

 

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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:11 am 
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I've enquired about this very thing, and have been told, (with reliable authority) that you can't replace the EF/EL tank with a Gas tank. There aren't any that are the right shape.
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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:18 pm 
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Disco Frank wrote:
bentles wrote:
on crewmans the gas tank goes where the spare does, its a donut shape or so im told,,,

hehe bentles thats not a full tank thats called a "spare wheel" tank obviously
it has a Much smaller capacity than the full size tanks, usually used for small cars such as laser,lancers etc that cannot fit the big assed 60+litlre sedan tanks in them


Your right there Frank, Commodore wagons also. IIRC the Donut tanks as known here is only around 55 litres water capacity giving you around 44litres of gas. A bloody waste of time in a 6 cylinder.

 

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heeh of course i am right :) heheheh

s**t 44 litres of gas is pretty decent.. as most gas tanks are around 65ish..

 

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Disco Frank wrote:
heeh of course i am right :) heheheh

s**t 44 litres of gas is pretty decent.. as most gas tanks are around 65ish..


Is that 65 litres of gas or water capacity.

I used to get 76 litres in my EA wagon, 90 litre tank.
When I had the gas installed I had 3 choices, 90 litre gas tank & half petrol tank ,donut tank with full size petrol tank, or wait about 6 months for the scuba style tank which at the time was still waiting for approval.
The last 2 choices would have given me a far shorter range on LPG.

 

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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:31 am 
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Bug wrote:
I was wondering if taxi's being straight gas have the normal behind the seats gas tank, or wether they have a tank moulded into the orig fuel tank position. Particularly EF/EL taxi's


hi

i have a EF and a EL falcon sedans ex taxis cars at work both are tickford fitted LPgas systems and both have the LPgas tanks mounted just behind the seat

the petrol tanks have either been removed or never placed in there normal positions

both engines are running CPI ( 2 injector type (carby) throttle body ) set up


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