Home Heat Oil & Diesel

[Lawrence C Leung]

Only works for low compression, or non-turbo apps. LPG has a low "octane"
rating. To go higher compression, turbo, the cylinder head needs a bit of
redesign to adjust for the low octane. 

LL - NY

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 23:25:53 -0000 "Jim Haseltine"
<Jim at ur-q.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Sherman" <spsherm at attglobal.net>
>
>
>> Of course in addition to your good faith on not cheating on the
>> fuel/road taxes, many refiners add a dye to the home heat oil...  
>At
>> road check, trucks often have a dipper put into their tanks to see 
>if it
>> comes up dyed, and the authorities are not too kind to those they 
>catch
>> avoiding taxes.
>
>The latest thing in some country areas of the UK that don't have piped 
>gas
>supplies is to have your car/4x4 converted to run on LPG. Then you get 
>the
>one of the local agricultual engineers to build you  an adaptor for 
>your
>domestic heating gas tank - your vehicle then runs at 7p a litre 
>instead of
>45p.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jim Haseltine
>
>