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[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

went 110mph today powered by Straight Vegetable Oil, cool!

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I still beat you, The only thing that could beat me when I was in Italy was a Ferrari which did blow by me and I was doing 225k which is about 140 mph.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Yeah Frank, but you had a car.

"went 110mph today powered by Straight Vegetable Oil, cool! "

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

I still beat you, The only thing that could beat me when I was in Italy was a Ferrari which did blow by me and I was doing 225k which is about 140 mph.

Yeah Frank, but you had a car.

"went 110mph today powered by Straight Vegetable Oil, cool! "

BF, sure, but the point was, I was using vegetable oil for fuel.
TG, for once you are right, it was a small SUV.

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Good'un!!

Best one of the month, Tony.
Think I'll have a bagel with my squirrel this morning. Thaty'll wake 'em up out at Wiswell!

Yeah Frank, but you had a car.

"went 110mph today powered by Straight Vegetable Oil, cool! "

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I thought the oil part was a joke. Did not think that was out yet to the public.

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

I thought the oil part was a joke. Did not think that was out yet to the public.

I don't understand your comment nor the one by that abrasive tonyg. My (new to me) 2005 Jeep Liberty runs on used cooking oil.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Gee, I didn't know you were in a vehicle.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I don't understand your comment nor the one by that abrasive tonyg. My (new to me) 2005 Jeep Liberty runs on used cooking oil.

I have no idea that there were cars out there now that you can buy that run on cooking oil. I heard about it being in the works, Did not know that they were released and honestly I would not figure it to be on a Jeep. There was no mention of this when I was at the car show 2 years ago and took there driving coarse challenge.

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

Contrary to popular Grease Lore, the first "diesel" engine (dubbed the "Black Mistress") designed by Rudolf Diesel in 1893, ran on gasoline vapor, albeit rather disastrously (this prototype engine blew its test gauges sending shards of broken glass and brass throughout the workshop). In the years that followed Diesel refined and redesigned his engine and discovered in the process that this engine can run on nearly any hydrocarbon, including such unlikely suspects as shale oil, refinery tailings, coal dust and, get this: peanut oil.

Modern day diesel injection systems, having been engineered for thin, low-viscosity diesel fuel, cannot handle high viscosity vegetable oils--unless, however, the viscosity is reduced. This can be accomplished two ways: chemically (trans-esterifying the oil into biodiesel); or thermally. By heating the oil to 160-180* F the viscosity is reduced to that of diesel fuel and, voila!, Sir Rudolf Diesel has his dream revisited.

Leaning on the ethos of Permaculture ("nothing in the system goes to waste"), heating vegetable oil in a vehicle is accomplished by tapping into the coolant system and employing a simple heat exchanger in an auxiliary SVO/WVO dedicated tank. Alternatively, 12-volt electric heaters may be used to heat the tank, as well as inline, to heat the oil before it reaches the injection pump.
This is an oversimplified rendition, but the principle is solid: Heat the oil with waste heat from the engine (or electricity) and you've got yourself a renewable, sustainable alternative fuel.

credit to greaseworks.org where the do good things unlike tonyg

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

credit to greaseworks.org where the do good things unlike tonyg

Maybe you should have ingested some of that oil to loosen you up a bit and maybe lube up that dri sense of humor too.

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

What!?!

Another zinger (Tonly likes them one-liners).

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

Another zinger (Tonly likes them one-liners).

if by zinger, you mean crass and uncalled for in a thread that is about alternative fuel, then you are right. Sure, encourage him.

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

Tony?

He don't need no encouragements. He's like a biten' sow, as it is.