putting gas on my vt

mrVT · #1 17-11-2008, 12:54 AM

hey peoples i have a vt 2000 vt acclaim and iam thinking of getting gas put in it as the government is giving the rebate which will only cost me afew hundred anyway i have heard if i put gas i lose my traction control feature is this true or does anyone know about that???

Your thoughts and opinions on getting gas put in to a vt cheers!!!!

Social · #2 17-11-2008, 01:24 AM

Tbh, my mate has a VT and put it on gas, we didnt notice anything diff wid the traction control

Ozzie · #3 17-11-2008, 04:40 AM

I hear vt's run like crap on gas depending on the brand?

juzo · #4 17-11-2008, 05:45 AM

Gas is for barbecues

vxcalais_01 · #5 17-11-2008, 07:40 AM

Stupid comments, its all being said now that petrol it cheaper for a few months only, wait till it goes up again, it will be higher than before.

Go for it, the money you save you can use for other mods/upgrades etc. I have my Ecotec on it for 3 years, my brother inlaw as well on his L67 Supercharged for 3 years. Keep it tuned, electrics( leads and plugs in good shape) and your laughing.

anonymousmoose · #6 17-11-2008, 10:51 AM

I got my VX 2000 put on gas. Mine doesn't have traction control so I don't know the answer to that question, yet I dont see how it can affect it.

My VX runs great on Gas. If its just me and my wife in the car I don't even feel the power loss. If my car is full or I got something heavy in the boot, I feel a little loss of power. But hey, I can just switch to fuel whist I'm driving and the power is back in under 3 seconds.

Get LPG fitted... its so worth the money. I save over $1000 a year and I only fill up once every 2 weeks. If I filled up ever week like when I used to drive to work, I'd save about $2000 pa.

My VX gets 500km to a tank of gas. At 60-65c a litre, it works out to be under $50 a tank. I put $20 worth of petrol (regardless of dollars per litre) in every fortnight too just to keep the fluid going through the engine for a few minutes before I drive. The GAS fitters said its not necessary but I do it anyways.

Cheap6 · #7 17-11-2008, 03:28 PM

It's worth a search as there's one very big thread in VT-VX that covers pretty much what you need to know.

redcv6 · #8 17-11-2008, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by vxcalais_01

Stupid comments, its all being said now that petrol it cheaper for a few months only, wait till it goes up again, it will be higher than before.

Go for it, the money you save you can use for other mods/upgrades etc. I have my Ecotec on it for 3 years, my brother inlaw as well on his L67 Supercharged for 3 years. Keep it tuned, electrics( leads and plugs in good shape) and your laughing.

yep because if you want to spend money on mods for the engine, the best thing to do first is to change to dual fuel

and the other peoples comments were stupid.................

skipzor · #9 17-11-2008, 05:48 PM

I got gas put on my VT exec last Thursday for $2,100, i havnt noticed any power difference. BUT the "check engine?" light randomly comes on. I called the ppl that fitted the system and they said it was common.. and when the 1000km server comes around they will fix it.

vxcalais_01 · #10 17-11-2008, 06:10 PM

We getting 54 cents in melbourne lately. Traction control on mine remains on, apparently the issue comes when the LPG unit cannot feed the gas to run with the traction control, possibly causing backfires.

fitz_vt · #11 17-11-2008, 08:00 PM

its a cheap way of destroying your ECOTEC 3.8L V6...... My mate did it BIG MISTAKE!!!!

Holdens Rule · #12 17-11-2008, 09:31 PM

There has been a lot of threads on this with a lot of arguments for and against. Basically if you do then get the factory mixer system as it's probably the best mixer system for it, but you will lose traction control with a mixer. The other option is svi or injection but it is over a grand dearer. You won't lose traction control and you wont really notice power loss or lose too much economy like a mixer. If your worried about power loss and you have a mixer system then you can just flick it back to petrol when you want to give it a squirt.

As for the argument that it destroys your engine all I can say is that a properly maintained system wont destroy your engine. I know heaps of guys that have gas and I know the guy that did mine and he hasn't had one engine crap itself. You might get the odd car that does but how do you know the engine wasn't on it's last legs anyway and also if one goes then are all cars on gas crap? Everyone has their own opinion on it so you will always get negative and positive feedback from people it's up to you if you want to do it or not, but in saying that if it is really as bad as some guys want you to believe then why are so many people converting cars? I've seen cars that have done over 200,000 klms on gas and never had a problem.

If you were to go to gas then maybe look at installing a upper cylinder lube kit on it, it's not that dear.

commsirac · #13 17-11-2008, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by mrVT

hey peoples i have a vt 2000 vt acclaim and iam thinking of getting gas put in it as the government is giving the rebate which will only cost me afew hundred anyway i have heard if i put gas i lose my traction control feature is this true or does anyone know about that???

Your thoughts and opinions on getting gas put in to a vt cheers!!!!

If the conversion is done properly with a mixer system then traction control should be automatically disabled when lpg is selected. It should still function when using petrol. If it is important to you to have traction control 24/7, go for the more expensive svi or lgi.