About NGVs - Benefits of NGVs

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Benefits of NGVs

Economic Benefits of NGVs
Choosing natural gas increases energy security.

Environmental Benefits of NGVs
Fewer pollutants and cleaner air than diesel or gasoline.

Safety Benefits of NGVs
CNG has an outstanding safety record as a vehicle fuel.

Widespread availability of vehicles and fuel
Natural gas vehicles and fuel are widespread.

How to Increase performance in CNG car - Part 1

Well, I think you all been waiting for this article for a while.

Here are the few steps:-

1) Modify your normal plug to side gapping. Visit this site for more information.
http://performanceunlimited.com/documents/plugsidegapping.html
The side gapped plug exposes more of the spark path to the open combustion chamber than the Standard version, as well as even the Splitfire® or Bosch+4® types.

2) Get a thicker plug cable for better current.

3) Clean your air filter frequent so that better air flow into the engine.

4) Get Dynamic Ionizer. It is a ceramic flow catalyst made of various radioactive natural ores. The principle of this flow catalyst is that the fuel or air clustered unexcited ion in the line is converted into an excited state and neutralized electro magnet wave by the direct ionizing effect of DI cores. It breaks down large ions into smaller ion pairs; this improves the bonding efficiency makes significantly increasing the output energy from burning. It is capable for applications in many other ways due to its maximizing the fluid`s molecule density due to ionization, which can make acceleration all chemical reaction.

http://www.toa-corp.co.jp/eg/garage/ionizer.htm

5) Use magnet on the petrol and gas line that direct to the carburetor.
Fuel mainly consists of hydrocarbons. Groupings of hydrocarbons, when flowing through a magnetic field, change their orientations of magnetization in a direction opposite to that of the magnetic field. The molecules of hydrocarbon change their configuration. At the same time intermolecular force is considerably reduced or depressed. These mechanisms are believed to help to disperse oil particles and to become finely divided. In addition, hydrogen ions in fuel and oxygen ions in air or steam are magnetized to form magnetic domains which are believed to assist in atomizing fuel into finer particles.
http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk/bigclive/magnet.htm
http://www.tinet.org/~sje/mag_fuel.htm
http://www.orgonelab.org/ymagnets.htm
http://www.energycel.info/
http://www.wholly-water.com/magnetizer/super.magnetic.fuel.saver.htm
http://www.mundi.com/automoto.html

Made your own magnet today. Get Neodymium Iron Boron magnet . It is the strongest magnet in the market.

6) More to come ................

Mileage of my car and Tips on CNG / NGV car

In average, with a full tank of gas about RM8.5, with a Wira 1.5, you can go about 130km. This is city driving range.

It is about RM0.065 per KM. Compare to previously RM0.185 per KM if using petrol. After petrol increase (28 Feb 2006) my petrol mileage have increase from RM0.185 to RM0.22 .

I like to goto Tanming Jaya NGV station as they have attendant. They open from early morning to 11pm. They are three pumps there. I like to use the left pump as it pump more than the right pump with higher pressure.

For your information, you need to stop your car engine while pumping the gas into the gas cylinder. According to the attendance, the heat from the engine will direct back to the hose and causing the connector and hose to to heat up. Once it is full, you pay and drive away.

If you goto KLCC, you have to pump on your own and pay at the counter.

I start using my cng conversion kit at 122,620km on my car meter. It is almost 1000km and I haven't pump in any petrol into my car. It is running cleaner with less carbon deposit in my engine. The engine oil is cleaner.

If you need to tune your CNG car, you can also goto a friend of mine that working from 8:30pm onwards at Kg. Baru of Jalan Muda Abdul Aziz Petronas to do the adjusment. It is cheaper and he is good at it. Write to me if you need his contact information.

More tips:
1) It is advice to change a new set of plugs for better performance. Normal plug will do. Reduce the gap to 1mm .

2) DO NOT switch the mode from petrol to gas before the petrol finishing burn in the chamber. It will spoil the plug and affect the engine performance and it might start jerking. While in idle mode, you can still run your car for about 100m, then stop a while press the gas peddle hard and maintain to 3000 rpm. When petrol finish, it will drop, when it drop to 1200rpm, switch to gas mode with a few step on the pedal.

3) Always start your car in the morning with petrol mode to warm the engine. It is the same if your car is stop for more than half an hour.

Engine Inspection at PUSPAKOM

End of December 2005, I went to PUSPAKOM (http://www.puspakom.com.my) for engine inspection and certification that my car is currently in Dual Mode combustion i.e. Petrol and Gas.

I arrived in the morning around 10:30am at PUSPPAKOM at Wangsa Maju. There are two entrance, i drove to the left hand site of the entrance. Then I park my car at a Special Inspection Area and walk to a registration counter nearby. Then I went to a payment counter to pay the inpection fees of RM15 and pass them all the installation documents to them. You will get a receipt. DO NOT LOSE this receipt. You need it to get your inspection certificate later.

Waited for one and half hour, then only reach my turn. Luckily the Special Inspection Area is covered parking lot with 3 lanes. Before the Inspector arrive, I have to open the Car Bonet, make sure the engine number and Chasis number is clearly visible to the Inspector. The inspector will carbonate the number with a pencil. Then the inspector went to the back of the car to carbonate the ngv tank serial number. Then I have to wait for a senior inspector to sign the inspection certificate. Since I it is already 12pm, the senior inspector alerady went out for lunch and I have to wait until 2pm for him to get back. I get the certificate at 2:30pm. FOR your information you do not need to drive to car exhaust inspection area after the inspector has check your engine number and chasis number. Park your car at open parking area while waiting for your certificate to be announced to you. They will call your car number plate. Present them your receipt and they pass the certificate.

Then I decide went to JPJ to update my registration number. JPJ is next to PUSPAKOM. I pickup the appropriate form for changing the registration card information from a counter at the ground floor. It was free. You need to fill in three forms where one of the form is duplicated. Then I went to the back of the building to climb up the staircase to first floor. It was a long queue to get a queue number. It was 3pm at that time. I decided to leave and come other day.

On January 9, 2006, I went to JPJ in the morning and I arrive at 9am. No one in the queue. I pickup a number with 4 people in front of me. The officier update their computer with my new car information. The officer just use her pen to change the information on the registration card and chop on top. She updated the Road Tax with an adjustment. Since early last year 2005, there was a reduction in roadtax of 50% on my car for below 1500c. My car which was RM213.60 yearly wen down to RM106.80 . For CNG car, there is another 25% reduction. Again my road tax went down from RM106.80 to RM80.10 yearly.

I would advice you go early in the morning before the PUSPAKOM open if possible 7:30am. Reading news paper while waiting for PUSPAKOM to open. Then straight away goto JPJ, fill in form. Goto first floor, get number and done.

If you need to change personal information on the car, you need to photostat your Identification Card . (MYCARD) and pass to them as well.