[Vwdiesel] Cinco De Mayo

[Brian and Ruth Decker]

Hi Folks;

                Today is a day of celebration. I finished my two tank heated
Veggie system in my 1990 VW 1.6 Turbo diesel Fox Wagon. I have a 24 gallon
WVO tank mounted where the back seat was. I have a centrifuge
(simplecentrafuge.com) to clean the used fry oil from a local restaurant.
About the only difference I can see in  running on veggie is that if I stand
outside while the car is idling it smells like French fries. The power seems
the same.  As a preliminary assessment I believe it has lowered my EGT when
I'm hard on the throttle by about 50 degrees over running diesel. I still
have a fully functioning diesel setup. I figure that it will take me about a
years worth of driving on WVO to amortize the investment in the centrifuge
and the conversion cost. Since that is money already spent I'm going to
really enjoy every time I fill my veggie tank for almost nothing. Ruth and I
have a summer trip planed to Western Pennsylvania which will mean about
5000 miles round trip. My next project is to build a box on a boat trailer I
have so that I can haul a couple of 55 gallon drums of cleaned WVO. With
that and my 24 gallon onboard tank I should be able to drive 5000 miles on
less than  one tank of diesel which will be used when shutting down for a
period of time. On cold startup I should be able to switch from diesel to
WVO after 5 or 6 miles. Let me see. Toledo Washington to Slippery Rock
Pennsylvania and back for less than 40 dollars worth of diesel. Now that
sounds reasonable.

Brian Decker