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My LPG powered 2jz 2GS

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Old 11-27-13, 04:08 PM
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This is my 2000 gs300 that i shipped to Europe about a year ago. I drove it with gasoline for about 3 days when i realised that $8 a gallon was not going to cut it when LPG is less than half of that .
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Coming out of the container
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Meeting it's German brother the E270 cdi Avantgarde for the first time
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Fuel economy
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Lpg.......
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Sitting pretty
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Car looks good man
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What kind of gas mileage difference u ge between the 2? Also what all is needed to convert to lpg? And damn $8 a gallon? I feel like a ***** complaining about $3 lol
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Is there any performance difference between using LPG instead of gas? I know you'll save a ton of $$$ in the long run but just wondering if performance will suffer.
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Would love to hear how to and performance as well!
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Originally Posted by puff
Is there any performance difference between using LPG instead of gas? I know you'll save a ton of $$$ in the long run but just wondering if performance will suffer.
You start to notice after some time that the car isn't the same, in theory it shouldn't lose HP but it definitely feels like it.

Not to mention its a few grand up front to install it.
Old 11-28-13, 09:58 PM
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wow interesting. nice lookin GS. i never even knew about LPG
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what was the upfront cost to install it? is it sthing you can install yourself? I would assume you make your money back from the installation in no time if it's about a five dollar savings per gallon.
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Originally Posted by D-Boi
I drove it with gasoline for about 3 days when i realised that $8 a gallon
Wow that's cheap. In here it's about $8,7 a gallon.
Where is that if you don't mind me asking (I don't know what means MI)?

I'd also like to know what it'll take and cost to make that conversion?

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I feel like a ***** complaining about $3 lol
No reason at all to complain about gas prices lol. That's cheaper than E85 and I always thought that'd be the cheapest fuel (LPG costs more).

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Very interesting conversion.. any more details/links?


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