grease powered diesel Audi's.

steinbru at vnet.ibm.com steinbru at vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jul 12 15:10:18 EDT 2002


Ref:  Your note of Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:50:01 -0400 (attached)

I used to see that car around here all the time.  It smelled like a
hundred burning skillets.  Mostly he used filtered deep fryer oil from
his and other local restaurants and mixed with regular diesel I beleive.

Rambling mode=on
Around the same time my neighbor drove to work in a small pickup from
which he had removed the motor and tranny and replaced with a military
surplus motor/generator run by a quarter ton of car batteries in the
bed.  The resistor for current limit was a wavey strip of stainless
steel that stuck up over the cab (so the air would blow on it).
Rambling mode=off

All that said, I must mention that I have an '83 Quantum Turbo-diesel
which is the VW eqivalent of the old 5K's (MAC ;-) just waiting out back
for some fryer oil (and a starter repair and some exhaust work).  --Gary

----------------------------- Note follows ------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:50:01 -0400
From: <David.Ullrich at ferguson.com>
To: <edwbirch at comcast.net>, <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: RE: grease powered diesel Audi's.

If you want to run a diesel on pure veggie oil, all you really have to do i=
s add a pre-heater to the tank & fuel lines to thin it out a bit. It's a pr=
etty common conversion on boats. On my boat, I run 100% BioDiesel, no conve=
rsion needed. Of course the "pre-converted" biodiesel cost MORE than regula=
r 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 di=
esel. That would only add about $0.10 per gallon to the costs and reduce em=
issions by something like 75%. Check out the BioDiesel site at http://www.b=
iodiesel.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.









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