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My Car Runs On VegeTable

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Dilla
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Thats right. My 1975 Mercedes 300d runs on waste vegetable. go to a restaurant, pick up the grease, filter it, put it in my tank, and im drivin for free. I am fuckin stoked and i encourage all of you to go out and do the same. It cuts down on your carbon footprint, and it smells like french fries and dough nuts when i drive down the street.
Nov 13 2006 11:12PM
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chapz
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that smell is the best, especially at the casse croutes in Quebec.
Nov 13 2006 11:13PM
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Dilla
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damn, i left out a word in the title.

"My Car Runs On Used VegeTable Oil."
Nov 13 2006 11:13PM
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~auddie~
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thats pretty sick shit, cept it might not go over well for a motorcycle
Nov 13 2006 11:16PM
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jimmychung
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i've heard about that. i'd love to do it to my car. does it cost a ton to adjust your car to handle it?
Nov 13 2006 11:17PM
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Dilla
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well you gotta buy a separate tank and hoses and shit which i bought off of greasecar.com. it comes in a huge kit with instructions and everything. it wasnt too expensive, but it wasnt exactly cheap, but i feel its worth it if i dont create more of an oil dependancy.
Nov 13 2006 11:22PM
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Dilla
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PLUS, i am taking something that would otherwise go into a landfill and running my car on it. which is really nice.
Nov 14 2006 7:45PM
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yojimbo
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does it effect the performance of your vehicle?
Nov 14 2006 7:46PM
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twix_182
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how many miles to the gallon. my rents own stores with greasers so we have tons of left over grease and shit
Nov 14 2006 7:47PM
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396222687862
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thats pretty sick, seems likke only diesel cars though, but still, sick idea
Nov 14 2006 7:55PM
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japanada
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only desiel yes
Nov 14 2006 8:01PM
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golf
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On dirty jobs they said it makes the car last longer because the oil is cleaner than gas
Nov 14 2006 8:34PM
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golf
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On dirty jobs they said it makes the car last longer because the oil is cleaner than gas
Nov 14 2006 8:38PM
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hartig
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i saw that one
Nov 14 2006 8:47PM
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Rajna
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mike rowe is the man.
Nov 14 2006 8:52PM
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4frntSkier
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yeah man
good for the environment
Nov 14 2006 9:14PM
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sexy_skier_babii
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one of my old teachers did that. pretty neat!
Nov 14 2006 9:16PM
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Dilla
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nope not at all.
Nov 14 2006 9:58PM
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SkierX
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Well, it does affect cold weather operation of the car.

WVO has a very high gelling oint compared to petroleum diesel.

Are there ways around that drawback ye? Or do you need to switch to petro based diesel in winter?

I am looking at a 1995 Passat TDI and would def. be interested in running the pure biodiesel.
Nov 14 2006 10:33PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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u go to mmu? our school did it to a 75 mercedes i think
Nov 14 2006 10:33PM
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cobra_commander
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and you don't have to pay for gas!
Nov 14 2006 10:35PM
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twintipteles
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I'm by no means an expert, but I believe that in cold weather you run your car for the first ten or 15 minutes on regular diesel, and then there is a switch  to change over to the good stuff, after it has been sufficiently warmed.
Nov 14 2006 10:46PM
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PimpDaddySkier
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how many miles do you get per gallon of grease?
Nov 14 2006 11:00PM
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Detective
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That's partially correct...there are multiple ways to make this work. One is the way mentioned above...but this only works so long as you have a heater on your BIO tank running from your alternator. Alternate solution, run a block heater plugged in at your house to your BIO tank. And in almost all cases you need to mix a certain proportion petro diesel. There are lots of good calculation algorithums for this on biodiesel.org.

I have run bio diesel a few times in my truck. You lose a bit of power and I lost one or two mpg's...that's B100...so a mix would yield better results. I have always wanted to mix my own more potent and powerful batch of bio but I just can't seem to ever not live in apartments.
Nov 14 2006 11:17PM
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MLB
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you forgot to tell everybody that your driving a diesel car....and the filtering process is pretty extensive, and you have to buy a rig to do it. He doesn't just get the old oil and stick it in his tank. You have to mix it with additives, filter it for days, seperate the oil from the lie, etc. Its pretty crazy stuff. It burns alot dryer then diesel fuel, and might clog up your injectors, but a cleaner can help that out. In canada Biodiesel is perfect because it does not gel like regular diesel does in cold weather.
Nov 14 2006 11:19PM
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Von
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thats like 1500 dollers for everything
dang
Nov 14 2006 11:31PM
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