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[knoath]

That'd be LHmusl (?)...
I can post pix of my Hatch on gas... tonight.
I'll have more time when I get home.

Cheers.

[Heath]

Dick, I'll do it for you. lol






Believe it or not, I don't even have a photo of Luke's engine bay. Is it possible that he opened it and I didn't snap it? Doesn't sound like something I wouldn't do

Yes Devilsadvocate I do agree with you. I'm sortof surprised that more people aren't disagreeing, but it's an understandable argument to say the least.

Edited by Heath, 18 August 2006 - 03:19 PM.

[Heath]

lol yep that's when I saw it for the first time. I am absolutely useless. I no longer can look myself strait in the mirror

Sorry to burst your bubble Heath, but you are not the worlds best photographic journalist, cos yep, you missed it!

That point will be proved if someone else that was present at the time, has a photo of the engine bay from that occasion.

[knoath]

Thanks Heath....saved me some stuffing around.....!!

[LhMusL]

Yep that WAS mine, but sold the other day very quickly to a guy in NSW, so i am rapted and shattered all at once!
I need the cash that i had poored into it for gulp (can't say this on here) more important things.
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[Heath]

I'm very sad to hear that Luke. :|
It better be getting replaced with another one.

At least it can be remembered with my uberskilled images from the photoshoot.

[Heath]

Or if keeping it more mellow, could a standard round airfilter be fitted to an LPG system? All the ones I've seen have offset air intakes.

Yes, Impco 425

Dual fuel applications almost always use the Elbow or "offset air intake", which obviously doesn't look fantastic.

[knoath]

Well the way I see it, if the Gov can get more people to use gas, then they'll have more people to tax when the exise comes in!!!

But for now, running a daily.... it does make sense.

If my circumstances change and I end up working 5 mins from home, it'll be back to PULP, and weekend fun! Get on the bike and get a bit fitter too!

[makka]

I considered converting my car to gas, for about 5 minuites!
I didnt really see the point as I only drive it on weekends, I ride my bike during the week. thats the best part about living in the city, its quicker to ride my push bike! If the government was serious about things they would make the rego for motorcycles much cheaper than it is right now.

[knoath]

I love that ad on TV at the moment, where the sheila and the bloke are talking as if they're in a relationship saying how they have to put their differences aside and just get along with each other..... then the camera pans back and you see her on the bike next to the car at an intersection.....

Sorry makka, but had've been me in the car, I'd have pushed her over then driven off!

I say, They wanna share the road, pay bgucken rego!!!!
And get outta my bgucken way!!!

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!

And before anyone calls me a hypocrit, if those afore mentioned cicumstances change, i'd be riding along a creek on a bike track....where they belong!!!!

Edited by knoath, 24 August 2006 - 12:05 PM.

[makka]

haha, the funny thing is, i was going down Punt road the other day doing the 60 km/h (on my pushy) I came up along theis guy in his car, i was in the middle lane, looked at him then road off! the look on his face was gold, I clocked 80km/h!

[Toranavista]

It would be my thoughts that everyone on this site that has a v8 torrie got one because they wanted one, and was prepared to pay for the privilege of this(there are cheaper alternatives)(petrol has never been cheap in this country and v8s have always been considered expensive on fuel), anyone with a good argument that a v8 is needed for basic transportation speak up! It sickens me that the government has now thrown $2000 of mine and everyone else�s money at anyone owning such a vehicle to now run it on cheaper fuel. Making it cheaper to run encourages more use, please don�t drivel on otherwise��that is a fact.
Sure LPG has far less toxic emissions, and produces less global warming carbon dioxide per kJ, about 20% less. However, this will easily be offset by the overall increase in consumption of lpg over what the owner would have used if the car was still on petrol fuel used due to the price diff.

The environment is a complex issue. The ecological footprint a person places on the environment is a factor of many sources. To assume just because an individual drives a car or v8 they are more of a problem is very simplistic. What is the energy rating of the house you live in? What form of heating do you use? Do you recycle? Do you participate in community environmental initiatives? The fact that a Torry has survived 30+ years means a lot less energy has been consumed than pumping out a rice burner every 15 years. The new cars are more fuel efficient but require more inputs to produce than that Torry did!

[TerrA LX]

^ it takes 4 times the energy/polution to make a new car than it takes to run an old car or to make one new car you could run 4 old cars all their life so who is the more enviromentally friendly person, one who restores an old torana or someone who goes and buys a brand new magna.

[Heath]

And the the construction of the old car probably caused more pollution than the construction of a car these days (refined processes, more efficient energy uses and recycling through the plant etc). Hense why the environment is a complex issue as Toranavista said.