Excellent Information.

Where do you keep the tank?

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy Winnipeg, Canada

> Some list member in the UK asked about LPG conversion for the vanagon
> recently.
> I finally got around to installing a propane fuel system on my 1987 syncro
> westy.  Its a duel fuel system so the original digifant is still in place
> and functional.  You just flip an electrical switch on the dash to change
> over, even while driving.
> Propane in Canada is a lot cheaper than gas or diesel, less tax.  In
Alberta
> its almost half the price of gas.
> Range has almost doubled also.  To bad I don't have 11:1 CR to take
> advantage of the 115 octane though.
> Overall cost per mile is same or a little less than the 1.6 TD westy I
had,
> but there is a LOT more power.
> Around here it seems there are more places to buy propane than diesel, so
it
> is a practical motor fuel (where I live that is). My propane/gas Jetta has
> 10,000 km since I converted it to propane, I've only driven less than 50
km
> of that on gasoline.
>
> Gary Lee
> Calgary, Canada
>