Registered as Alpina B3S<\/p>\n
engine nr: 16134<\/p>\n
Switchtronic, widescreen TV\/Sat Nav, centre armrest, Harman Kardon Hi-Fi upgrade, 6 cd player, burr walnut trim, auto light5s, electric folding mirrors, heated electric memory seats, 18″ alloys, pdc<\/p>\n
for sale fastsaloons.com 4\/2007:
\n\u00a316250
\nIndependent Motor Company
\nsales@imc-online.co.uk<\/p>\n
for sale pistonheads.com 2\/2008:
\n81000miles, \u00a313995
\nSteve Weller
\nReading
\n+44 771 5159513<\/p>\n
new owner Richy Boy posted on fastsaloons.com 3\/2008<\/p>\n
owner Richy Boy posted on fastsaloons.com 10\/2008:
\n“Well, it’s been along time coming and after jumping from one installer to another for information I finally settled on a company called Gastech who are based in Essex due mostly to my confidence in both their ability and their understanding of that I was after. I’ll dig out their number if anyone is interested, the guy I dealt with is called Keith Woods who has a Country-wide reputation for excellence.
\nI know most of you hate to see a modified Alpina, so if suffer from a weak heart, look away now. To say I’m impressed by the quality of the install is an understatement!
\nHere’s some pictures:
\nShot of the engine bay. only evidence of the conversion is the new injectors which are NOT drilled into the manifold, but are using existing mounting points used by the petrol fuel rail. The installer did offer to fit them under the manifold so 100% hidden, but for injector servicing this would have meant the manifold would have to come off again.
\nKeihin injectors, which are by far the best units out right now. Silent running, especially compared to my old car that used BRC injectors – which clattered a bit.
\nBoot space after installer. I specified a tank size which actually raised the level of the tank just above the boot floor, so I’ll get some foam blocks to raise the floor a touch to keep it nice and flat. It’s not really noticeable though!
\nThe spare wheel and jack is being ditched in exchange for a foam puncture repair canister as per the D3ish models.
\nThe vaporizer (thing that turns the liquid into a gas) and the LPG ECU is all installed in the little area to the back, right of the engine bay. This meant all connections to the ECU and internals of the car remained within this area. Only injector loom and a connection to the water pipes run outside, but has been done exceptionally neatly. So much so, I doubt many would spot it.
\nCarpet back so you can see the tank. It’s a 70L job, which is about as big as you can fit unless you have a large cylindrical unit behind the back seats. I didn’t want this type as the weight would be far too high in the car, so would effect handling. With this tank in the boot full of fuel I haven’t noticed any major change in handling, but again, have only driven with the family present thus far. I expect with the petrol tank on quite a low level and the spare wheel and jack removed it won’t be noticeable, and may, like my Nissan help with rear end traction.
\nThis is the only modification to the car externally. As you can see in the black reversing sensor panel a small plastic cap is visible. Flip this back and screw in an adapter to refill.
\nThe reason for putting it there? It’s the only panel that can be removed and replaced if I wanted to remove the kit. As any other part of the car, all modifications can be rolled out and replaceable plastic panels can be sourced.
\nThe switch\/gauge unit (sorry no pictures yet) has been placed rather stealthily into the ashtray area, so you flick the cover up and can view the levels or indeed switch between fuels, even when on the go. I’ll do a little tidying up here as the bracket was left steel, which I’d rather paint black.
\nI’ll put up more details tomorrow night, or at least as soon as I can. I’m very keen to get this car on the rollers and on an open road as I have only driven it with my family present, but from motorway driving and a bit of built up driving I haven’t noticed ANY power loss at all.
\nI ned to work out how the reading is generated, but the OBC showed 31.2mpg on the journey home (motorway, sitting around 80mph ish), which if accurate when on LPG is quite impressive, especially taking into account that LPG is half price)
\nIf you have questions (except for Whyyyyyyyyyyy?!) then please ask.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Registered as Alpina B3S engine nr: 16134 Switchtronic, widescreen TV\/Sat Nav, centre armrest, Harman Kardon Hi-Fi upgrade, 6 cd player, burr walnut trim, auto light5s, electric folding mirrors, heated electric memory seats, 18″ alloys, pdc for sale fastsaloons.com 4\/2007: \u00a316250 Independent Motor Company sales@imc-online.co.uk for sale pistonheads.com 2\/2008: 81000miles, \u00a313995 Steve Weller Reading +44 771 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e46-b3s-coupe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}