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Offline sluggish

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Re: Natural gas Cars
« Reply #15 on: September 12, 2008, 09:06:09 AM »
Mine uses NG.

http://www.grillsdirect.com/gas-grills/grills-with-carts/weberq300gasgrill.cfm

Sorry mickey, you may have purchased a conversion kit to hook that up to your house's NG system, but the grill in that link burns propane.

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Re: Natural gas Cars
« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2008, 09:10:38 AM »
Most gas grills now give you a choice. Just needs a different regulator, and the CNG burns a little cooler than LP.

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Re: Natural gas Cars
« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2008, 09:15:01 AM »
Most gas grills now give you a choice. Just needs a different regulator, and the CNG burns a little cooler than LP.

Yup, like I said, you can buy a kit to run a grill on your house's NG.  It consists of a replacement regulator and orfices.  The grill in link runs on propane out of the box.

Offline Mickey1992

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Re: Natural gas Cars
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2008, 09:22:03 AM »
I converted it.  Although there are grills that use NG out of the box.


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Re: Natural gas Cars
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2008, 12:05:42 PM »
glad to see more people talking about this. I posted awhile back about this and it didn't seem like many people were interested.  As i see it the biggest obstacle to NG autos right now is the EPA.  We could switch over every car in the US in a very short amount of time if the EPA would let loose there grip on power over the parts makers.  They have decided that every conversion has to be OBDII compliant.  This elevates cost to around the neighborhood of $100,000 to $300,000 per model year per engine option.  Never mind that NG burn cleaner than gasoline even without all the extra emissions crap on it.