This review is for the propane injection kit assembled by www.importpoweronline.com
The kit is very well put together and includes everything needed except the actual propane tank. All harnesses were presoldered with male and female spade connections making it impossible to plug any of the wire sections together incorrectly. The main harness is about 10ft long and was run from the trunk to the passenger side footwell, hiding the routing under body panels and carpet. The trunk side of the harness plugs directly to the tank apparatus (solenoid and needle vavle already assembled) and the other end in the footwell plugs into a harness that runs through the firewall and connects to the Hobb's switch and another that runs a ignition power source and ground. The ignition wire has an inline spade fuse already inline.
Install was a snap and took me about 1 hour start to finish.
Finding the tank in my area was the hardest part and I ended up ordering one from The Sports Authority. So far the 4.25# tank has proved to be plenty.
Results:
Hooked up the logger and made a pull at my current settins to record O2s and spark advance. At 20# I was seeing a steady .94 volts and timing was so-so dropping to 10* and only rising to 17* by redline.
Now time for some propane. I opened the bottle vavle and set pressure at the regulator to 85 psi. I opened the needle vavle which adjusts over all propane volume flowing to 1 full turn open. The needle vavle goes from open to shut in 6 full turns for reference.
First pull the car felt smoother. I was logging O2s first and the propane increased that number to .96-.98. EGTs dropped from 1550*F to 1410*F. Another pull to check timing and I see that timing drops to only 14* and rises to 22* at redline with no dips or plateaus. Over the course of about 4 pulls I pull out a total of about 7% fuel with the AFC and get the EGTs back to 1550* and O2s back to .94 across the board. Timing is still good but not as good. At tip in the timing now drops to 12* and rises to 20* at redline. The car definately feels faster.
I then decided to turn the boost up but doing so caused a few problems with the car itself so I don't have much data there yet. I had to head back to the garage and fix some stuff and it got to late to go back out.
Yesterday I installed a new knock sensor since the other had 86K on it and checked for boost leaks.
It may be about 2 weeks before I can post a follow up though as the turbo is coming off and is being replaced by something from a different vendor.
Stay tuned.
The kit is very well put together and includes everything needed except the actual propane tank. All harnesses were presoldered with male and female spade connections making it impossible to plug any of the wire sections together incorrectly. The main harness is about 10ft long and was run from the trunk to the passenger side footwell, hiding the routing under body panels and carpet. The trunk side of the harness plugs directly to the tank apparatus (solenoid and needle vavle already assembled) and the other end in the footwell plugs into a harness that runs through the firewall and connects to the Hobb's switch and another that runs a ignition power source and ground. The ignition wire has an inline spade fuse already inline.
Install was a snap and took me about 1 hour start to finish.
Finding the tank in my area was the hardest part and I ended up ordering one from The Sports Authority. So far the 4.25# tank has proved to be plenty.
Results:
Hooked up the logger and made a pull at my current settins to record O2s and spark advance. At 20# I was seeing a steady .94 volts and timing was so-so dropping to 10* and only rising to 17* by redline.
Now time for some propane. I opened the bottle vavle and set pressure at the regulator to 85 psi. I opened the needle vavle which adjusts over all propane volume flowing to 1 full turn open. The needle vavle goes from open to shut in 6 full turns for reference.
First pull the car felt smoother. I was logging O2s first and the propane increased that number to .96-.98. EGTs dropped from 1550*F to 1410*F. Another pull to check timing and I see that timing drops to only 14* and rises to 22* at redline with no dips or plateaus. Over the course of about 4 pulls I pull out a total of about 7% fuel with the AFC and get the EGTs back to 1550* and O2s back to .94 across the board. Timing is still good but not as good. At tip in the timing now drops to 12* and rises to 20* at redline. The car definately feels faster.
I then decided to turn the boost up but doing so caused a few problems with the car itself so I don't have much data there yet. I had to head back to the garage and fix some stuff and it got to late to go back out.
Yesterday I installed a new knock sensor since the other had 86K on it and checked for boost leaks.
It may be about 2 weeks before I can post a follow up though as the turbo is coming off and is being replaced by something from a different vendor.
Stay tuned.
