Nate,
In case there are any newbies reading this thread, they should know:
Nate is very protective of his MBs.
If your objective is to experiment with or save money be using bio-fuels, the most forgiving car to use are the 78 to 84 MBs.
Although Nate was talking about the possibility of transesterfication of lipids into bio diesel, it is also possible to use Straight Vegetable Oils and not have to process anything in your backyard. Bio-diesel is widely used and most users are satisfied. Bio-diesel is also useful as an additive to dino diesel to restore the lubricity lost by the latest Ultra Low Sulfur diesel.
As Jim implied, the usual way that people use SVO is to have two tanks and to crank and shut down the engine on dino diesel. After a few minutes of running on dino diesel, the water will have warmed the SVO heating gadgets and the SVO will burn nicely.
It is also possible to modify some cars to allow them to use SVO in a single tank system. I would only trust the conversions kits designed by Elsbett.
Sold from Germany by Greaseenergy:
<http://www.greasenergy-shop.com/epages/63102114.sf/en_US/?ViewObjectID=28949856>
Discussion here:
<http://www.repowernow.net/cars/diesel/elsbett.htm>
Bobby
, Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com> wrote:
I bought the car not running as junk after the boobs in The People's Republik Of Santa Monika ran it into the ground by running god alone knows what mixtures of vegitable oil until it stopped running and refused to start again.....
After I beat the price down to scrap value and purchased it , I made it run and drove it off the lot in choking clouds of smoke then peaked & tweaked it whilst driving it another 20,000 miles before it died early one morning , then I rebuilt the engine (ouch) and have been happily driving the living hell out of it ever since on Dino Diesel , it's stylish , comfy and surprisingly fast , I love out running Sports Cars in the mounatins and canyons & deserts in it .
I am aware one can make Bio-Fuels @ home but to do it right is very time consuming not to mention the ever present oil slick so I choose to buy Petro Fuel .
-Nate
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Toward freedom,
Bobby Yates Emory
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