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Originally posted by fakedirt
reply to post by felonius
if you are considering running on cooking oil bear in mind some types of injection pump just die because of lack of pre-heating to the oil before it enters the pump. quite a few in the uk tried it, some with success some without.
the oil needs to be the viscosity of piss for a sure fire drive.
f
Originally posted by fakedirt
reply to post by Fox Molder
running the pipework close to the block/cyliner head can assist if seperate tanks are fitted. being in the uk i have not heard of tank warmers. may i enquire as to the cost of these?
at the mo here in the uk the authorities i believe frown on the use of cooking oil as they insist they are losing revenue. i have heard of customs dipping tanks and giving warning and/or advice. be great to have the room and go ahead (approval from the government!) to power my tractor.
regards f
Originally posted by ANNED
The problem is the smog laws.
New cars don't get better gas mileage because government regulations traded cleaner air for less mileage.
Then you have alcohol, The fuel mileage years ago was based on pure gasoline fuel with maybe MTBE in it.
Now the fuel has alcohol in it in growing amounts.sometimes up to 25%.
Cars get less MPG on this fuel and the government has mandated that cars now have the fuel mileage numbers bases on the worst fuel not like 10 years ago when the mileage numbers where based on the best fuel.
Now hybrids were never about higher gas mileage.
They were only about cleaner running.(less pollution) due to a smaller RPM range.
If hybrids were about fuel mileage we would have a lot of diesel hybrids as they would get about 25% better mileage.
Originally posted by fakedirt
reply to post by Fox Molder
many thanks for the links.
the prices are beyond my pile of peanuts i'm afraid. suppose i could go rusky if it gets too nippy and set fire to the sump!
regards f