Bio-fuel

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Old diesels seem fine with vegetable oil unprocessed anyone tried it?

... goes and looks for an old Peugeot 205 Diesel... "Richie"

I'm buying a diesel tomorrow....




I feel awful about it





and it's a rover....





I'm such a goon!

My old xantia 1.9td worked just fine on about a 30/70 mix of neat tesco's veggie oil and diesel. Ran it like that for about 60,000 miles without any problem whatsoever. I, ahem, recorded everything for customs, ahem.

Reason we don't all do it, as I understand, is that to produce enough oil seed rape to fuel the worlds cars we'd need to turn *all* agricultural land to it, have none left for food, and still be well short.

just normal veggie oil, no filtering?

i'm on a 50/50 mix straight veg oil (svo) and regular pump diesel at the moment.


when it gets a bit colder its harder to start the car so i change my mix to 70% diesel 30% svo

i just buy the 3 litre bottles of veg oil from tesco it works out at 54p/litre and i dont do anything like filtering or converting to bio diesel etc i just pour it in from a big jerry can.

If you can get waste veg oil for free then obviously thats a decent cost saving but i cant be bothered with all the filtering and water extracting thats involved.

I change my oil and fuel filter every 6 months and i've been running my combo van 1.7 dti for 12,000 miles like this with no problems to report as yet apart from the usual donut smell coming from the exhaust.

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

just normal veggie oil, no filtering?

Yep, just slap it in. Not so sure I trust it with newer common rail diesels, not tried it on my audi but the citroen seemed to love it. As stated, if using second hand oil then all sorts of filtering needed.

Mate of mine has a 205 diesel and has a twin tank setup, he starts and stops the car on dino juice and when it's warm flips a switch to run on 100% neat veggie oil (it's thicker than dino juice so 100% kinda needs a warm engine or a pre-heater). His main "fuel" tank is filled with 100% veggie oil and he has a jerry can in the boot that holds five or so litres of dino juice to start and stop on.

There was something in MCN the other week, about 2-strokes being run on 90% (or more) ethanol. The emissions where cleaner (hurrah! return of RGV's and RS250's!!!) and there was more power

I would like to run a bike on ethanol - thats not hard to make

Fermentation of sugars

Matt

Originally Posted by SV225

Thats the one! I didnt even want to try and spell the name as I cant even say it!

Originally Posted by Baph

That would be the Swiss(?) car. I saw it too.

The one that develops 804hp on American (80ish RON) fuel. 850hp on EU fuel. Convert & tune it to bio-fuels & it kicks out 900hp. Damn.

Stig lost it on a corner because it lacked a spolier for rear downforce. So they sent it back for one fitting. The manufacturers then sent it back to Stig for testing.

Classic.

That's a Swedish car, the Koenigsegg, which is an odd word even by Swedish standards!

I'm driving around in a hire car at the moment (valet parking in Stockholm crashed my Passat!) and it's a Bi Fuel Focus. Haven't tried it on normal petrol, but it seems to have plenty of poke running on Ethanol, which is 7 and a half Kronor a litre, rather than 12 ish for unleaded. Bit noisy though, although that might just be a Ford thing....