Our "New to Us" Winnie

[T1 Terry]

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/176232061381?

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/124793745829?

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1& ... hps%20oval

The whole air intake is a mess of reducers and expanders, the throttle body is a 4.5" sort of oval, down to a 3.5" LPG mixer, that goes to an adaptor that connects to the 3.5" pipe that goes through the firewall and then a 60* bend that brings it back up to 4.5" where it goes onto the air cleaner .... surely just making it 4.5" all the way would have been a heap easier

T1 Terry

Maybe it needs a bit of a venturi effect to get the airflow required for the idle compensation to work correctly.
I wish some of my gas conversion mates from back in the day were still about and I could ask them.

The pipework is all OEM for the petrol injection, the gas mixer was just squeezed in where there was a bend originally.
I think it might have been to do with limiting the HP at higher rpm to make the torque curve a lot flatter. These were always designed to be a truck engine, yet people try to stuff them into cars where a Cleveland 351 was a tight fit.
There are some amazing after-market inlet manifolds, turbo exhaust manifolds and even 4 valve heads to build these into performance race motors .... don't know why you would bother with the high hp 5.2 ltr Mustang putting out 760hp and 665ftlb torque from the factory.
The 320hp and 460ftlb torque, all at around the 2500rpm to 3500rpm mark will do me, I doubt I'll ever enter it at The Bend Dragway

T1 Terry

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[T1 Terry]

Good to see you are awake again Dottie Very clever pun there

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

The reducer hoses and aluminium joiner pipes have arrived and they seem to fit up nice, just need to figure out how to get the vapour line from the LPG converter to the mixer to fit, it needs to set back a bit or the mixer needs to be moved to the right a bit so there is enough room for the 2 bits of hose and the metering valve to fit .....

Tomorrow, we plan to head off to pick up this Lexus before the son pinches any more parts out of it for his new ride, wasn't quick enough to get it out of there before the traction battery was pilfered as a spare .... that will sit and go flat no doubt, yet to see if the stereo and speakers are still there ..... as long as the engine, hybrid transmission, computers and wiring is still there, anything else is just a bonus really.

The MG4 should be coming through Murray Bridge mid next week, then all the vehicles should be here ready for Christmas

T1 Terry

[supersparky]

Terry, just kinda thinking outside the box. If the V10 resurrection doesn't go well, and you finish up going down the V6 hybrid from donor Lexus route, have you had any discussion with an automotive engineer to see what you would need to do to make it compliant?
I kinda like the idea of an EV motorhome for a number of reasons, even though owning one wouldn't quite suit our needs at the moment.
If you have a 10m motorhome and can ditch the roof rattler, there is a bunch of roof space to fill up with solar panels and maybe just do a bit of tour and stay, and have a hybrid toad.
Dunno what the insurance company would say though.

[jon_d]

Dunno what the insurance company would say though.

Probably start with "Terry who ?"

[supersparky]

Dunno what the insurance company would say though.

Probably start with "Terry who?"

But seriously though, with our Federal Govt pushing for a greater EV uptake, and Elon Musk backing the Donald, the world must be looking to move into EV motorhomes, at some point. If that's the case then surely insurance companies are going to have to also move with the times.
There is a guy in Qld that follow the big speedway races that has a big prime mover pulling a Dryden 5'er that I'm sure is elec powered. I just haven't been able to have a yack with that bloke yet, but someday I will.

[jon_d]

To get insurance, the first thing will be the engineers certificate. Same with rego.

I don't see how an insurance company would want to insure a bespoke motor home that has had its drive train completely modified from the original design. (ie ICE to Hybrid). When thinking about it, I'm met with these questions.

How could they determine their risks and potential losses?
How could they lock in a design and be confident that it doesn't change over time?
And if it did change, how would that affect their risk profile?
Could they have that confidence that it wouldn't change?

Those are the questions the underwriter would ask.

So, would the conversion simply become white elephant never to be road driven? Rustic II?

[Shirley]

Home built yachts became very hard to find insurance many years ago & we thought then it was only a matter of time & MH conversions would become the same.

[supersparky]

I don't know why this oval shaped interface hose just popped up in an article I was just reading on Mr Google, but I thought it might help. Just in case all the other bits you found are as helpful as they need to be. There seems to be a variety of different sizes if you scroll down through the ad.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/39341963997 ... y-rmAi1k-Q