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Lord Derosso
5th May 2006, 19:27
Dominion Post Friday May 5 Page A6
Man runs 2Litre car on used vegetable oil brought from local takeaway giant.
No modifications to engine, runs as fast as on petrol and costs 62c a litre.
Exhaust smells like 'fried food'.
Runs a four wheel drive using same oil without any problems.
Does this mean we will have McBikes coming out soon.????
Hope you can SuperSize them. Get a six pack with every top up.
If you think I am joking... he even got a speeding ticket!!!!!
Lord Derosso
5th May 2006, 19:28
Yes its in NZ... Wellington I believe..
Lord Derosso
5th May 2006, 19:55
If the sellor is proactive in selling to provide a better use of its waste produsts then they will get a very big :first: from me. Not that I eat from that certain place much but everyone needs to change to make better use of resources. Dont like the idea of smelling like fried onions at the lights though.
SLight
5th May 2006, 20:03
So whats that fried up shit doing to me guts??!! Owwwrrr I dont feel to good.
Edbear
5th May 2006, 20:29
Been a guy on the North Shore been running a Nissan diesel van on used cooking oil for a long time now and there's a guy up this way offers a conversion kit for this purpose for about $1500. Think the van owner hasn't made any mods to his vehicle though. Diesels will run on a variety of fuels, they go excellent on CNG but that's not readily available anymore.
so used cooking oil., whats the difference , what happens to the oil chemically that allows u to use it . perhaps we can start buying bulk vege oil and doing some process to it to allow us to run on it
Edbear
5th May 2006, 21:06
[QUOTE=zeRax] what happens to the oil chemically that allows u to use it ./QUOTE]
It gets a lot cheaper than new oil...:blip:
GIXser
5th May 2006, 21:31
there are two ways of running a diesel on used cooking oil,
1 = biodiesel, this is converted oil or waste oil, that goes through a chemical change, (i wont get into it but anyone can do it..) the verhicle does not require any mods to run this, maybe a little extra servicing thats it..
2= is wvo (waste vegetable oil) you need to install a second tank into your car, diesel car,,
this will take filtered waste oil from your local takeaway-- yum yum,,
you start out on diesel , and when the oil (wvo) is heated in the holding tank you can change to the wvo source, from diesel,
this requires some mods-- anyway, i can go into a lot more detail but thats it in a nutshell--
easy eh
Insanity_rules
5th May 2006, 21:44
MMMMMM fried food urgghhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Lord Derosso
5th May 2006, 22:52
this dude said he did all that shit but it was a waste of time. tried Biofuel etc etc but the Mac'@@@@@@ worked far beter.
gixermike
6th May 2006, 02:08
have seen biofuel from frying donuts or something like that used before.....pain in traffic as the smell just makes you starving hungry by the time you get home.
Sniper
6th May 2006, 08:31
I can only imagine the damage caused to the engine after a couple of years....
You don't need no fancy process and preheaters to run vege oil,that's only for in the UK and US where all this information comes from - it's cold there and the oil solidifies like the oil in your fridge....take it out of the fridge and it turns to liquid again.You can run that straight in the tank - I have.You need a filter to run used oil though.
They'll have to use some fancy method to mix the lard in for NZ Biodiesel though,as lard is solid at air temps.
Lord Derosso
6th May 2006, 12:04
I can only imagine the damage caused to the engine after a couple of years....
Yeh and thats just your guts you're talking about isnt it?? Worried about steel then what about membranes. ? A lot of takeaways use Canola oil now. Wonder which is the best? Perhaps used peanut oil? Expensive. Sunflowers? cheap and easy to grow. No more excuses for a cetain KB bloke anymore than. Out of petrol? stop off at the local fish & chip shop. I suppose you could alternate between petrol and vegie oil to protect the engine but the oil would be well filtered anyway.
Sniper
6th May 2006, 12:08
I don't care about my body. I can just imagine how the carbons from the unburnt oil would add up and cause shit.
I presume it is treated the same as a diesel and he has to pay road user charges so the Government still get their whack of tax?
Edbear
6th May 2006, 12:37
I presume it is treated the same as a diesel and he has to pay road user charges so the Government still get their whack of tax?
Nup, no taxes I'm aware of as it's not a recognised fuel as petrol or diesel is.
I think (correction welcome) that all non-petrol road vehicles get hit with RUC.
Sniper
6th May 2006, 12:45
I think (correction welcome) that all non-petrol road vehicles get hit with RUC.
Thats true, but I believe only when they are registered as non petrol vehicles.
I'd assume that anything running on vegetable oil would originally have been a diesel (well, technically, still is, but you know what I mean )
Brian d marge
6th May 2006, 13:13
And my Enfield , has a sister ..The Taurus which uses a Robin Diesil engine ... and is very economical!
Me I will make ethanol.... plans are available on the web ...
Stephen
AKA Tony the cheap Basket
GIXser
6th May 2006, 13:14
Nup, no taxes I'm aware of as it's not a recognised fuel as petrol or diesel is.
oh no matey,, road tax definately applies" there is however an argument which i believe the governement is dreading to hear for obvious reasons--
Sniper
6th May 2006, 13:15
Very true, I never thought of it in that way.
Mr. Peanut
6th May 2006, 19:20
I don't care about my body. I can just imagine how the carbons from the unburnt oil would add up and cause shit.
I think we have more to worry about from "normal" fuel, remember how the new diesel started destrying jappa engine seals??? WTF was up with that making us pay for the repairs :angry:
Anyways diesels can run on most anything, sometimes when a diesel get worn out enough it'll run on its lubricant, which means you cant turn the engine off!!!
:gob:
remember how the new diesel started destrying jappa engine seals??? WTF was up with that making us pay for the repairs :angry:
The sulphur swelled the seals,removing the sulphur returned the seals to their original size - shrunk because they were old.
Lou Girardin
7th May 2006, 06:32
Dominion Post Friday May 5 Page A6
Man runs 2Litre car on used vegetable oil brought from local takeaway giant.
No modifications to engine, runs as fast as on petrol and costs 62c a litre.
Are you saying he runs a petrol engine on oil?
gamgee
7th May 2006, 06:41
I think (correction welcome) that all non-petrol road vehicles get hit with RUC.
lpg
10chara
Lord Derosso
7th May 2006, 08:14
Are you saying he runs a petrol engine on oil?
Exactly what he was saying in the article. Nothing done to the motor and runs as good as on petrol, just smells like fried food .. for some reason.
I mean it would have to be filtered well of course.
Just a cock up by the newspaper,the 2 litre car will be a diesel,so will the 4x4 - no way will a petrol engine run on vege oil,but a diesel will happily.
TwoSeven
7th May 2006, 12:26
BioFuel has been around since mr Diesel invented the stuff. As pointed out, has to be a diesel car, not petrol.
Shadows
7th May 2006, 19:03
I can only imagine the damage caused to the engine after a couple of years....
Yeah all that cholestorol and shit is really bad!
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