Apeman

Sorry if its already been discussed.

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/ford-f-1...163751211.html

sullyman

That's cool. Too bad they are only offering it on the 3.7. Would be cool on the 5.0! You can get more power out of CNG, because it's 115 Octane equivalent, which would allow you to really advance timing, , and you get better mileage to boot, because it's as efficient a fuel as you can get.

b727capt

It might have a future, I read somewhere that the rail industry is contemplating switching over from diesel.

dac12046

The rail industry will probably do it to the yard engines but I think Ford is heading in the right direction

cwcb08

thats exactally what i want at work

we can't put a dangerous commodity next to an engine it has to be the second car in a train but its okay to put a tank full of fuel between two locomotives



Our locomotives



engines BN tested years ago

the only reason they are considering doing it is because it is cheaper

OKreddirt

I have a 2012 5.0 bi-fuel and love it. Nothing like filling an empty tank and watching all of the petrol fillers turn their heads in envy. Love my $14 fill ups.

Apeman

Whichever company gets there first will have a big advantage over the competition for a while. Then like everything else we buy the price of natural gas will be dictated be Wall Street and shoot up thus making people not do the conversion because it will take too long to justify it.

Where do you fill up? Anywhere that fills natural gas? I haven't seen anything around here capable of doing that.

TeamZambo

Who did your CNG retrofit? If you don't mind how much did it run you? How many miles do you get to your tank of CNG?

boy_welder2000

Four or five years ago I saw a F150 that was modified to run on LP. I don't remember much about it other then it had like a 40 gal tank in the bed and it had Roush stickers on it. It was part of a display that the National Propane Assoc. (or something like that) had set up to show some uses of LP. It was at the Farm Science Review in Ohio.

EricJ

From my research on CNG, it provides less power than the same engine on gasoline. The explanation and numbers were on one of the Ford retro-fitters website.