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Can you make the cracking pressure necessary to open the injectors ?

Lyndon

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From: "Chris McKinnon" <chrism at cnx.net>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: Newish Member Post


> >I've heard that diesel fuel injectors are designed to
> >use the fuel as a lubricant, run gasoline (or propane)
> >thru them and they'll gall.
>
> I'll have to ask one of the diesel mechanic's I know for a couple of old
> injectors. Then I can try to test them to destruction.
>
> >There was a time, and perhaps some still do, when NOX
> >injection kits used propane as the supplemental fuel,
> >high octane (110?), same plumbing as NOX, etc. You
> >might do some investigation into what's available
> >here, doubtful NOX solenoids are designed to cycle on
> >& off like a fuel injector, you might be able to
> >"push the envelope" but that's unlikely to be
> >successful.
>
> That could be worth a shot, I'll look into it.
>
> >Summit is/was having a close-out on ADS chips, I noted
> >that they had chips for '91(?) Chevy PU's, one for
> >gas, one for propane, thought it would be interesting
> >to get one of each and compare them to see what the
> >differences where, but I never did.
>
>
> As far as I know the differences are in the ignition curves. You can jack
up
> the timing a bit more on LPG at higher revs.
>
> >Personally, I'd be more interested in taking advantage
> >of that high octane w/ turbocharging rather than
> >converting to FI.  Hmmm...hafta give that some more
> >thought...
>
> The thing I like about LPG is the fact that you can run up to about 14:1
> compression and the extra torque it give at lower RPM's. Plus the fact
that
> LPG is worth about 2/3 of gas.
>
> Chris
>
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