History
Purchased in 2007 to replace a Holden 2003 VY HBD Factory LPG Executive, Burgundy colour; stolen and written off by Insurance company. Sorry, no photos of that one :-(
Wanted to keep a V6 but wanted a supercharged car. The L67 Calais fit the bill.
After having the previous car running on LPG, I didn’t like paying the petrol bill, so I decided to upgrade the car to use LPG.
In 2008 finally found someone (R.A.G.E Racing - Clayton) to fulfill this wish with a PRINS sequential electronic vapour LPG system which will work with a boosted injection car. This was installed for $5K and I started saving money from that time (LPG was around 50cpl and 91RON was $1.20 at the time).
I was able to get some subsidies from the Govts (Fed & State) and so total cost was around $3K.
Running at around 100km/day, at least 500km/week, from home to work made it a cheap run (73lt tank and 500km/tank@ approx. $40 a fill/week, cheaper than travelling the same distance by Public Transport and less than 1/2 the time).
However, in July 2010, I was waiting for a break in traffic on a slip road, when someone thought I was moving (I was still stationary, obviously didn’t/couldn’t see the three stop lights on the back of the car) and rear-ended my car and bending the chassis around where the back wheels and axle. It was drivable, but I needed to get it checked out.
As the cost of repairs was more than the cost of replacement, the Insurance company wrote it off. I then used the money to buy the next Calais from Canberra, but not before I had the PRINS LPG system removed from it and kept in storage for a short time, ready for the next car, my current one.
Modifications
Just the LPG conversion. Stock otherwise.
