To avoid fuel deficiency, you can convert your car to run on your natural home cooking gas.
If you didn’t know much about the different types of fuels cars use, please just keep in mind that CNG power cars are one of them.
CNG is a compressed natural gas meaning a car can be powered with the same gas you use in cooking at home.
You can convert your petrol-engined car to run on CNG without disrupting its normal petrol process.
Below is how you can convert your Petrol car to CNG
To convert your car to CNG, you will need some components and an experienced metal fabricator.
Here are some of the components you will need:
- A gas tank
- A regulator
- Parallel fuel rail
- CNG injectors
- An adapter
- A wiring harness
- Fueling ECU
How the components works
You will attach the high compression CNG to a regulator that will reduce the gas pressure to 125 psi. You will then feed the fuel line to the CNG injectors plugged into an adaptor designed to accommodate both the gasoline and the CNG injectors at the same time.
You will then connect the wiring harness to the ECU and it will use the throttle information, sending new information to the CNG ECU and the ECU then sends the data to the CNG injectors since CNG uses a different amount of fuel and air combination to power the car. The 2 ECUs working together will do most of the work.
The CNG ECU has a button that switched the car to run between CNG or normal fuel. The best thing about the conversation is that you can still have a normal; petrol operation.
The conversation does not make the car heavier. Its only the gas tank which is heavier, the remaining components are lighter.
Advantages of Converting Your Car to CNG
Over Dependence On Fuel
With CNG conversation, you don’t have to always depend on petrol. Since the petrol and the CNG can co-exist then it is to your advantage that scarcity of fuel will not stop you from operating your car.
Better Gas Mileage
On average, the gas mileage of CNG cars is 20 per cent better than the petrol engine cars. This implies that for every time you operate on CNG, you will be saving more fuel per trip.
This is why some companies run their cars strictly on Natural gas.
Saving the environmentÂ
The emission from CNG cars is less harmful to the environment than that of Petrol cars with the best fuel consumption.
In a well-converted CNG powered engine, natural gas combustion emits 20 percent lower carbon and about 25 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases compared with the cleanest gasoline engines, all these with zero damage to the catalytic converter system.
Petrol engine still intact
With a switch of a button, you can easily get back to your petrol system, You can start your startup your car with petrol system but as you get to higher speeds you can switch to CNG for better mileage.
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Disadvantages of CNG cars
Refilling CNG is challenging
Refilling a strictly CNG car is accompanied telling you gas when it runs out. Not just because there is no enough CNG refill station but since home gas filling station refill gas at very low pressure. For car gas tank to store CNG, it requires to be compressed and the refill can take up to 20 hours.
The conversion is pricey
The conversation kit alone for CNG power is between Ksh 86,000 and 120,000. This conversation cost will be recovered in term of low-running cost of CNG after 2 to 3 years. The problem here is the probability that after 2 to 3 year, you will want to sell your car since it’s just in human nature to change things.
