grease powered diesel Audi's.

[David.Ullrich at ferguson.com]

If you want to run a diesel on pure veggie oil, all you really have to do is add a pre-heater to the tank & fuel lines to thin it out a bit. It's a pretty common conversion on boats. On my boat, I run 100% BioDiesel, no conversion needed. Of course the "pre-converted" biodiesel cost MORE than regular diesel, but it has vastly lower emissions and NO soot. On my boat I only burn about 20 gallons a year so the extra cost is very little. If you want to clean up your car, I'd suggest running 25% bio and 75% regular petrol diesel. That would only add about $0.10 per gallon to the costs and reduce emissions by something like 75%. Check out the BioDiesel site at http://www.biodiesel.com/

Dave

Too Many Toys:
2002 VW Jetta GLS 1.8T Tiptronic
1993 RX-7 R1
1987.5 Audi Coupe GT "Special Build" 2.3 - Anthracite Black
1985 Chevy Impala Interceptor

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Birch [mailto:edwbirch at comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:30 AM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: grease powered diesel Audi's.


Ken wrote......

> Has anyone heard of anyone converting an Audi diesel car over to run off
of
> vegetable oil (used or new)?

More than a dozen years ago, a fellow in upstate New York ran an old VW
Diesel on used fast-food cooking oil.  According to the article, he ran a
50-50 mixture of used veggie cooking oil and diesel fuel or home heating
oil. They said the cars exhaust smelled like whatever foods oil it was
burning; sort of made you hungry!  I believe that he ran afoul with the NY
motor fuel taxation people!

About 15 years ago, I used straight .48 @ gallon home heating oil in an old
MB 240 Diesel.
Worked well until we got a cold weather snap!!

A Diesel engine will run on damn near anything resembling fuel, much to the
chagrin of OPEC.

Ed Birch, 93-100S
KOP, Pa.