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Old 12-25-2004, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by ivanribic
This is what I would do if propane was that much cheaper than gas. I believe propane is around 110 octane so you can run extremely high compression on it. Some of the guys with propane powered competitoin buggies are running 13:1.

Actually propane is 118 octane. You could go higher than 13:1, Cummins makes 2 versions of it's B series diesel converted to run on either LPG or CNG and if I'm not mistaken they are around 18:1. You also need to advance the timing running propane and you could even have the Distrib advance recurved.