I would appreciate if you would do a little writeup on the natural gas
system before you sell it. I think it would be a valuable part of our
vanagon archives or on a WWW page.

Since you have a doka I assume you're in Canada. Here in the US various
government agencies talk a lot about natural gas and lpg as alternatives
to gas/diesel, but do little in practice.  I'd be interested in a
natural gas conversion, except that the closest filling station would be
7-8h away (in Wash DC).  I understand you can get some kind of home
filling kit, but that it is both expensive and very slow.

I'd be curious to know:

Where were the tanks? (In the under bed storage lockers on the doka?)
Would they fit in any natural location on a "transporter" vanagon?

What are the tank dimemsions and weight?

How does the fuel system work? Is the nat-gas and petrol systems
separate, or does the nat-gas stuff use the same ECU or tie in to the
other components?

If you have any pic's of the setup I'd love to see them on a WWW
page. If you need space I'd be happy to host them.

FYI: For diesel nuts like me there is a technology called "fumigation",
in which a CI diesel engine is run partially on a gasenous fuel and
partially on diesel. This can be done to a standard diesel engine with
minimal modifications if fumigation rates are below 10-15 percent on an
energy equivalency basis.  The purpose is to make the combustion process
more complete and clean up the exhaust. Power also increases somewhat.
The power increase is mostly from the added extra fuel, but also
from higher efficiency.

At higher rates 70-95% the diesel injection is basically only used to
start combustion. These rates require heavily modified engines.

Happy VW-ing,
martin
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