LPG Systems on 9-5 Aero

[prossington]

Hi guys,

Further to my post yesterday about buying a 9-5 and key issues to look for when buying one, I wanted to ask another question of STT members.

I’m thinking of getting a petrol 9-5 Aero and getting it converted to run on LPG as well as petrol. Now, I know some members will consider this a terrible idea, but I ran a previous Saab on gas and had no major issues (well with the gas aspect anyway). As with everything, it seems the success of getting a Saab to run on gas is finding an installer who knows what they’re doing. My previous installer loved Saabs and said they were one of the best cars to convert. This guy really knew what he was doing and got the set up spot on so that I couldn’t really notice any difference in performance. Unfortunately he has retired and is not around to install another system for me.

I just wanted to ask if any members have had a good 9-5 conversion done and can tell me who did it and what kit was put on. I’m especially interested to know if anybody has had two evaporators fitted or a particularly big one to ensure no loss of BHP on an Aero. One issue my last installer was very aware of was too small an evaporator being fitted and not getting enough gas into the engine. He put a larger than normal one in for the 150BHP 2.0 LPT, but did say if I ever went for something more powerful I should consider getting two evaporator units. He also had a specific Saab Turbo program for the LPG ECU, which made an amazing difference to performance. Anybody know of other manufacturers who have specific Saab ECU for the LPG system?

As always your help and assistance is very much appreciated.

[dw]

Have you asked Google "LPG on SAAB"  it comes up with quite a few pointers to discussions on various forums on this topic.
I think that there was enthusiastic SAAB /LPG user of the previous incarnation of this forum which Google might get you to.

[Milowokie]

Have LPG on my 04 Aero.

Bought it that way three years ago, so don't know when the system was fitted.

Had a trip to my local LPG specialist a few weeks ago for a service, it'd started to run badly on full/ 75% throttle up steep (Holme Moss) hills.

Turns out it's my fault, the system is supposed to be serviced every 12,000miles/annually, and I'd never bothered. 

£230 later, including a full tank of gas, everything is spot on, as an aside the annual service is about £85, so it cost me roughly the same except for slowly increasing LPG usage as the seals started to fail and the car ran rough......

Recently had a run through North Wales to Swansea, from Manchester, cost about £60 in juice there and back and didn't use the motorway after getting on the A55, just nice fast A-roads.....