25 Jul 12 07:40, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:


 RW>> MH> Just wish I could convert my gas to run on natural gas.  It is
 RW>> around
 RW>> MH> 40 cents a term right now - lowest price I have ever seen.

 RW>> Therm...if you can find the conversion kit, do it. Your engine will
 RW>> last forever.

 TW> Wel at leasr MICH Longer.

Yeup.

 TW> Tehre is a smal proce though and that is a small reduction in engien
 TW> Horsepower becasue of the Lower BTU per unit of Natural gas as
 TW> compaired to Gasoline.

Which can be overcome with a small amount of nitrous injection.

 TW> This downside  can be made up by Raising the compression ratio of the
 TW> engine and changes in the spark advance becasue of the Higher Octaine
 TW> Rating, about 130 for Natural Gas, as compaired to Gasoline.

Too much work for so little gain.

 TW> In fact the producvtion Natural Gas Honda engine Horsepower in Higher
 TW> than the Gasoline engined one. With no engine modifications you get
 TW> an about 10% power reduction.


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