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shardian:
Is it possible someone in this thread could actually research before posting information??

Anyways, it depends on which Diesel car you have as to whether it can run on veggie oil straight up. There is a reason the people who do this tend to go with old Mercedes diesels.

--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---Many cars powered by indirect injection engines supplied by inline injection pumps, or mechanical Bosch injection pumps are capable of running on pure SVO in all but winter temperatures. Turbo diesels tend to run better due to the increased pressure in the injectors. Pre-CDI Mercedes-Benz vehicles and cars featuring the PSA XUD engine tend to perform well too, especially as the latter is normally equipped with a coolant heated fuel filter.
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The "expensive modifications" are adding a second fuel tank for diesel, adding a 3-way valve to switch between the two fuels, and adding a way to heat up the veggie oil to increase its viscosity.

And yes, some people have went as far as adding sophisticated filtering equipment to filter used cooking oil on the go.

Zero_Hour:

--- Quote from: shardian on September 16, 2007, 12:44:24 am ---Is it possible someone in this thread could actually research before posting information??

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 :laugh2:
Crazy talk, I tells ya.

Joystick Jerk:

--- Quote from: shardian on September 16, 2007, 12:44:24 am ---Is it possible someone in this thread could actually research before posting information??

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I did some research and found out you were gay. ;)

FrizzleFried:
Biofuel takes quite a bit of filtering and extracting of certain parts of raw oil from El Torto's taco deep fryer.

Joystick Jerk:
Were not talking about the manufactured product Biofuel/Biodiesel. Some diesels and can fact run and bog standard cooking oil. The main things most mods kits do to make the diesels run on the oil is to heat it up so it's more viscous, increase fuel pump pressure, and add another heavy duty filter into the fuel line. Beyond that, the engines really can run on the oil right off the shelf.

This is only becoming more mainstream now, but farmers have been using this sort of thing for a while now. Peanut oil has been used extensively to power modified tractors for a couple decades now.

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