70 home power 95 / june & july 2003
Run a car on 100 percent vegetable oil? Sounds crazy! I had driven my Mercedes
300CD diesel engine for a quarter of a million miles before I had even heard about
biodiesel.
Using straight vegetable oil in my car made...
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70 home power 95 / june & july 2003
Run a car on 100 percent vegetable oil? Sounds crazy! I had driven my Mercedes
300CD diesel engine for a quarter of a million miles before I had even heard about
biodiesel.
Using straight vegetable oil in my car made even more sense to me.
Two Choices
You have two choices when running on biofuels.
The
first is to make or buy biodiesel, make no modifications to
your vehicle’s engine, and just drive away.
The second
choice is to buy or make a conversion kit for running
straight vegetable oil.
There’s no need to process the fuel;
you just fill up and go.
With biodiesel, you modify the
vegetable oil; with SVO, you modify your vehicle.
The conversion to running on straight veggie oil is made
by installing an extra fuel tank, tapping into the vehicle’s
liquid coolant system to heat the oil, and then controlling
the flow of the oil by valves and switches.
The oil must be
heated so it is thin enough to flow through your fuel system.
The valves and s
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