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Audi S8 Quattro 4.2 V8 365 bhp
As many know of our success with the A8 we had a lot of enquiries about its more powerful sister S8. We had to wait a while for the chance to convert the S8.
The S8 has 60 or so more horses than the A8 and it was fortunate that we got the latest high performance Romano injectors and vaporiser in the same week. The conversion performs perfectly and even we cannot tell which fuel the engine is running on without looking at the switch.
The build quality of the S8 is excellent and some of the design strategies are pleasingly useful, sometimes making you grin in an enlightened sort of way. A major difference from most cars is the aluminium bodyshell - Lighter for sure, but presenting its own problems when structural rigidity is required. For the LPG converter, a little forethought is required when mounting heavy items like LPG tanks to aluminium panels. Other things must also be considered - Dissimilar metals bolted together are well known to display the Cathodic effect, where electrolysis may cause erosion of at least one of the two. In the case of the Aluminium that forms the S8 body and ordinary steel nuts and bolts, it is perhaps not surprising that the former metal will be the one to suffer. For a good demonstration of this effect, take a look at the top edge of an older type Range Rover front wing by opening the bonnet and checking the area around the Steel horizontal wing mounting bolts. You'll sometimes find that the Aluminium wing around the bolt head has simply vanished, as if it had evaporated..... Electrolysis did this. Undesirable to say the least! Ways had to be found to avoid the problem on the S8, a lot of thought had already gone into it.
Our anti - electrolytic arsenal has three main weapons - Anodised (Aluminium coated) nuts, bolts and washers (putting like to like removes the problem) for tank mountings, high quality industrial strength plastic cable clamps for pipe restraint (zero corrosion issues on either side) and polyurethane adhesives (of the type that bond most windscreens to the car bodies) for mounting boxes of electronics etc.
We're quite happy that security of all LPG conversion components has been maintained by these measures, whilst the cathodic gremlin will not make his presence felt in the future.
Anyhow, enough, here's an outline of the Audi / Go LPG / Romano S8........
The detail; We offer the S8 Romano HD system multi point sequential LPG injection conversion (as shown above) with a full 24 months parts and labour warranty. Every conversion comes with a nationally recognised insurance certificate. A 1000 mile 'bedding in' check and final adjustment session is also included in the price.
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