Minor Accident

Boo: is this mommy’s newly ngv converted car to take me places?

Re-tuning at MAFT

I went back to MAFT to have some tuning done to the Bluemec ECU. I was having a low idling RPM problem. When accelerating from a standstill, the RPM will go down, until the engine will jerk, and almost stall (actually only stalled once). Ganesh (thanks!) helped me with the tuning, and I am very satisfied with the results. Even mommy gave the thumbs up.

I also went to refill the gas today, the 3rd time since I got back the car. So far, I have travelled 374km on RM24.37 worth of CNG (approx. 35.84L). That comes to about on average 6.43sen per km for fuel consumption. Since I will be saving about RM0.22 per km using NGV (RM0.285 – RM0.065), that’s RM82.28 for the past 5 days. You can view my records at Google Documents.

Pictures of Kangoo NGV

So, I got the car back on 8 Aug 2008, and I waited for over 4 hours at the workshop. I am using Bluemec Cosmos Sequential Kit.

MAFT at Jinjang Selatan

This is the Regulator

The Gas Filter

The Rail Injector

The ECU

MAP / Pressure Sensor

Gas Refilling Valve

Overall Engine View

The Dashboard Indicator

Close up view

The 100L Type 2 Tank

The tank from the back

Installing of NGV conversion kit

Finally, the time i have been waiting for, the time to have the Kangoo converted to NGV. I have been scheduled for the conversion at MAFT (Kepong) starting tomorrow. I will send the car over, and hopefully, I can get back the car by Thursday. Just in time for the Dogathon at UPM on the 10th, and arrival of Boo’s friends from Singapore the following weekend.

I was originally scheduled to be converted at JT NGV (Ampang branch) in July 2008, but JT informed me that they were “afraid” to do the sequential system on Kangoo at the last minute. They asked me to do the mixer one instead. So, I have to look for somewhere else. And I found out about MAFT from the old contacts (from Hijau). Anyway, JT is using CONVERTEC brand (can’t find the info on the internet), while MAFT is using BLUEMEC (italian company with website). Talked to Mr. Kennedy and booked one within 3 weeks.

I hope MAFT can do a good job on my Kangoo, since others are not willing to perform the conversion using sequential kit. I will post some pictures and mileage once I get back the car. BTW, I am upgrading to a 100L Type 2 tank, and MAFT is charging me RM7,800.

Before the conversion, let me state some statistics: 1 tankful of petrol refill is about 42 liters (about RM113) can travel for about 400km on Kangoo 1.4 EFI Auto. Comes to a fuel consumption of RM0.285/km.

See you again in a week or two with update.