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I have an EL falcon running LPG only. It lacks power and i am wondering what I can do to the power back to wfere it should be.
The car drives Okay, just a bit gutless.
I have replaced the coil, TFI module, cap, rotor, leads, plugs (gas plugs). The cat has been broken out. I would love some ideas.
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See my other post in regards to tailshaft. Also my EB on gas was a tad gutless. I fitted it with one of those 2.5 inch cat back Redback exhausts & now it goes a heap better.
Gutting the cat won't make any difference. I ran a gutted cat for a while due |
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There is actually something amiss with the car. I am not trying to increase performance-just restore it. The car doesn't have the power that it should have from standard with a gas system fitted. I reckon that a sensor is faulty but so far have not been a
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how many Km has it done? how much of that has been done on gas? & did you lose the power suddenly or gradually? Sorry i got the impression that it lacked power due to the gas conversion which is understandable. Here is the link to another reaso Edited by user Wednesday, 31 January 2007 9:30:36 PM(UTC)
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Since I have had the car, about two years. It is an ex cab and done 820 000.
Compresion is OK.
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820,000Km I would guess that your timing chain may be stretched causing retarded valve timing (which won't effect ignition timing). My EB suffers from this & it's only done 460,000. Then again at idle especially when cold my timing chain rattles a bi
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Yeah no rattle at all. I might just do a rebuild on it and start from the ground up.
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