Let's talk about some CNG
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Let's talk about some CNG
I finally landed a new job that involves driving about 100-150 MPD. I have been reading about some cng through the intake, cng injection. i'm just wondering if anyone is currently running any set up and how it's working. The town I'm staying in has a cng station so acess is not a problem.
let er go.
Mud
let er go.
Mud
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If you're going to post about the fracking don't bother. I want to hear about what is working and what is not please keep your enviromental whako opinions to yourself and I promise I won't make you look stupid
.http://www.mrtruck.net/cng.htm
There has got to be a cheaper way
thanks
Mud
.http://www.mrtruck.net/cng.htm
There has got to be a cheaper way
thanks
Mud
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If you're going to post about the fracking don't bother. I want to hear about what is working and what is not please keep your enviromental whako opinions to yourself and I promise I won't make you look stupid
."CNG, compressed natural gas, is it the answer for the fuel crisis, we review a diesel/cng conversion."
There has got to be a cheaper way
thanks
Mud
."CNG, compressed natural gas, is it the answer for the fuel crisis, we review a diesel/cng conversion."
There has got to be a cheaper way
thanks
Mud
I don't want to risk you making me look stupid, so you go first. I think you should install that homemade looking CNG kit on your truck and report back. It looks like Rube Goldberg designed it. If your 6.0 blows up, I promise I won't make you look stupid.
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There are a lot of the oil field trucks running it here and a station for CNG 2 miles from my house. I think it's a viable alternative fuel for diesels and can provide some great increases in MPG. The science isn't new but still in a relative stage of infancy and pricey. I know one of the trucks in the Diesel Power challenge got something like 38 mpg with a combination of CNG and diesel, but at what point is it cost effective to invest in a CNG system vs. burning that much extra diesel? IMHO you should be able to convert over for a LOT less than the price they listed.
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No. It takes heat, fuel, and air to make combustion. CNG is fuel. Nitrous is air. I'm not a chemist or a combustion expert and I'm sure that CNG has a similar affect, but they are different parts of the combustion cycle.
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Make sure you do a C/B ratio on this little endeavour. Personally, if I had that kind of a drive, I would have made sure that I would have been able to expense it all if it was work related, otherwise, I wouldn't have taken the job. Fuel, relative to everything else, is at a price point to where you have to make sure it's covered by expenses as long as it's work related.
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I use NG in my house and a Phil sta cost about 3k and no station around here that i know of. I thought about using it for my to and from work drive but the cost is too high to conver. But is sound good but no money. good luck with you search, and keep us inform.
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Need I say more?
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MPG calculations, fuel savings etc will raise eyebrows with me until I get the nitty gritty. I don't know how many people buy into the ad copy that tuning companies have out there about fuel savings running one of their programmers.
I'm not saying that that is the case here, but I would like to see how they are coming to that conclusion first.
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I agree, they said I could contact some previous customers to question them. but that could be his brother in law for all I know. I'm going to have to see some pretty good evidence before I drop a couple grand.
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