\input lpg-defs \footline={\hfil} \headline={\hfil} \font\hl=cmssbx10 scaled\magstep4 % cover \line{\hfill \$5.00} \vskip20pt {\baselineskip=28pt \centerline{\hl Do-It-Yourself} \centerline{\hl Automotive LPG} \centerline{\hl Conversion} } \vskip20pt \centerline{\bf Tom Jennings} \vfill {\parindent=14pt\obeylines\parskip=0pt \centerline{Convert your car to Propane (LPG) as a motor fuel:} \vskip\parskip\hbox{\hfil} {\narrower\hfuzz=7pt \begindoublecolumns \item{\blob}Pollution-free -- CO$_2$ only \item{\blob}3 X longer engine life \item{\blob}Smoother operation \item{\blob}Fewer tune ups \item{\blob}No more toxic gasoline \enddoublecolumns} } \vskip\parskip \line{\bf World Power Systems\hfill San Francisco, California} \break\penalty-10000 % force a page break % title page \centerline{Do-It-Yourself Automotive LPG Conversion} \vskip24pt \centerline{by Tom Jennings} \vfill \line{World Power Systems\hfill San Francisco, California} \break\penalty-10000 % force a page break % front matter \centerline{Original Printing April 1991} \vskip24pt \centerline{Copyright \copyright\ 1991 by Tom Jennings} \vskip24pt All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission, except for ``reasonable use'' and quotations of brief passages by reviewers. (Thanks to III Publishing for the notice text.) \vfill You can purchase copies of this book directly from World Power systems for \$5.00 each post-paid; quantity discounts available, and dealers/distributors wanted. All other correspondence should include a self-addressed envelope with adequate postage. Write to: \vskip24pt \centerline{World Power Systems} \centerline{LPG Book} \centerline{Box 77731} \centerline{San Francisco} \centerline{CA 94107 USA} \break\penalty-10000 % force a page break \centerline{\bf Table Of Contents} {\parskip=0pt\obeylines\advance\baselineskip2pt Introduction \leaderfill 1 Other Fuels \leaderfill 3 Methanol vs. Propane \leaderfill 6 Motor Fuels, Safety \& Toxicity \leaderfill 7 Liquid Fuels \leaderfill 8 Gaseous Fuels \leaderfill 9 Road Trips \& Fuel Availability \leaderfill 10 But Is It An Alternative? \leaderfill 12 Getting Away From Petroleum \leaderfill 12 System Design \leaderfill 14 Dual Fuel Systems \leaderfill 14 Before You Build \leaderfill 15 Hints For Motorheads \leaderfill 16 The Engine \leaderfill 16 Choosing Components \leaderfill 18 Vehicle Fuel Tank \leaderfill 18 LPG Component Installation \leaderfill 20 Starting It Up! \leaderfill 23 Typical Problems \leaderfill 25 No Fuel Flow \leaderfill 25 My Problems \leaderfill 26 The Gas Can \leaderfill 28 Added Features \leaderfill 30 Cost \leaderfill 31 Conclusion \leaderfill 33 Suppliers \& Sources \leaderfill 34 About This Book \leaderfill 35 Buy My Products! \leaderfill 36 } \newpage \vfill {\baselineskip=18pt \centerline{Thanks To:} \vskip12pt \centerline{Greta Shred for incisive thinking} \centerline{Valerie Stadler for general support \& making the car's curtains} \centerline{Duke Crestfield for conversations} \centerline{Dr. Scot Kamins for things'n'stuff} \centerline{My father Frank for everything else} } And the rest of the Shred of Dignity and HOMOCORE household and circle of supporting friends for making our world work. \newpage %---------------------------------------------------------------- \footline={\ifodd\pageno\rightfootline \else\leftfootline\fi} \def\rightfootline{\tenpointsanserif \copyright\ 1991 World Power Systems\hfil LPG-\folio} \def\leftfootline{\tenpointsanserif LPG-\folio\hfil\copyright\ 1991 World Power Systems} \headline={\tenpointsanserif\hfil Do-It-Yourself Automotive LPG Conversion\hfil} \pageno=35 \newpage \section{ABOUT THIS BOOK} {\advance\baselineskip-1pt \advance\parskip-2pt In 1988 I started this project with a table entry in the 1955 CRC Chemistry \& Physics Handbook comparing LPG to other common fuels. Then I found out that it was quite popular in various industrial equipment, and wondered -- if it's so good, why isn't it used for passenger cars? The only answers I can come up with are inertia, ignorance, and greed. It's a short-term -- 20 years or so -- solution. I'm not dismissing arguments regarding automobiles and their destructive nature; I merely attempt to address what you \& I can do, by ourselves for ourselves, today. Positive aspects of the automobile-as-transport-device aspects are often overlooked; long-distance ``road trips'' are an intrinsic part of our various and peculiar North American cultures and one I will not give up willingly. Each of my 8000+ mile road trips have been powerful and enlightening things, and now I don't have to pee in the environmental pool to do them. In urban areas cars are ridiculuous, and if cities would stop relying on them as income sources (tickets, parking fines, etc; you'd be shocked how much income your city derives from cars) and built usable intra-urban transport systems, and at the state level (I only say this because I can't imagine municipalities working together cooperatively) there were usable inter-urban systems, I think things would be very different. \smallskip \centerline{* * * * *} This book has many problems. It's too skimpy on content, and needs to be a textbook. It needs LPG component and supplier data. I totally forgot fuel mileage (it's 10\% less MPG than gasoline). But I had to make the project reasonable, and cut it off at this point to get it done at all. I'll consider myself lucky if I get complaints that it wasn't enough information to complete the job (by assuming it {\it was} enough to get started). \smallskip \centerline{* * * * *} This book was typeset using \TeX, Donald Knuth's gargantuan public domain mathematical typesetting system, on a DOS 386 computer and DeskJet 500 printer, on 60 lb. matte coated paper, hand pasted onto 8.5 $\times$ 11 paper to make copy masters. Photos were taken on the usual lousy pocket camera, ``screened'' using the FINE PHOTO setting on a Canon Laser Copier, then cut and glue-sticked into place. Books are xeroxed and hand stapled. } \newpage \headline={\hfil} \centerline{\bf The Fido/FidoNet\trademark\ Bulletin Board System Software} \tenpointsanserif Fido/FidoNet is a software package for DOS based Personal Computers that contains a complete Bulletin Board System (BBS) plus a fully automatic Electronic Mail system. Fido is the best-known Bulletin Board system in the world because of its flexibility, reliability, and features; FidoNet is the software that defined the FidoNet protocol now in use around the planet. The worlds largest privately-owned computer network (10,000 nodes, April 1991) is based upon the FidoNet communications protocol. \bar \begindoublecolumns Fido\trademark\ Bulletin Board System: {\parskip=0pt\parindent=12pt\obeylines \item{\blob}Absolute security \item{\blob}Caller access controls \item{\blob}Language/graphical interfaces \item{\blob}200 message \& file areas \item{\blob}Email and message commands \item{\blob}Error-free down/uploads } Fido is a full\dash featured Computer Bulletin Board System. Callers, commands, message and file areas can all have separate privilege levels and Locks \& Keys applied to them; these let you limit callers' access to any part of the Fido system to fit your needs. \goodbreak FidoNet\trademark\ Network: {\parskip=0pt\parindent=12pt\obeylines \item{\blob}Wide Area Networking \item{\blob}Completely automatic \item{\blob}Error-free transfers \item{\blob}Time-of-day scheduling \item{\blob}Auto message routing } FidoNet is an automatic ``store\dash and\dash forward'' mail system that transfers mail and files with all other FidoNet-comatible systems. It is completely integrated with Fido, and transparent in operation, and if you don't use it, you won't even know it's there. \enddoublecolumns Requires: DOS 2.00 up, 256K memory, hard disk recommended, plus any reasonably modern ``AT-command'' type modem. \bar \def\product#1#2{\medskip\line{{\bf #1} \leaderfill\ {\bf #2}}} \product{Fido/FidoNet System}{Special LPG-Book price: \$35} Complete Fido/FidoNet system license, including support programs, diskettes, manuals. \product{FidoTerm Terminal Program}{\$12} A simple, powerful and easy to use terminal program. View lines scrolled off the top of screen; ASCII, Xmodem, Zmodem file down/uploads; script language with real programming language constructs. Can be run from Fido/FidoNet. Includes manual. All orders are shipped First Class (Priority Mail). Prices include shipping and taxes. Outside North America: money orders drawn upon a U.S. bank only; add \$10 for Air Mail shipping. {\tenpointsanserif Fido\trademark, FidoNet\trademark, and the dog-with-diskette are registered U.S. trademarks of Tom Jennings. Fido/FidoNet and all support programs are copyright \copyright\ by Tom Jennings 1991. } \bar \vfill \obeylines\parskip=0pt Fido Software Box 77731 San Francisco CA 94107 USA \bye