[TriLUG] OT: Anyone interested in seeing a vegetable oil poweredcar after Thursday's meeting?

[Jim Wright]

On this subject...one of the best sites I've found for biofuels info is
here:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
They have a section on ethanol...as an aside, when I was a kid, my dad
was friends with a guy who ran a alcohol powered speedboat out at the
Tarheel Regatta...he won a lot of races.

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Brian Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Anyone interested in seeing a vegetable oil
poweredcar after Thursday's meeting?


I don't know that "seeing" it would do me much good, but I would be
interested in your general experienes.

 - Cost of conversion
 - Time and cost of collection & filtering waste oil
 - Milage comparisions (Gas/Diesl vs Veg Oil).
 - Maintance issues (pre and post conversion).

I ask because eventually my 1996 195K Honda Civic is going to give up
the ghost, or some stupid drive is going to finally hit me. Either way
I'm going to have to get another car "eventually." Your converted Jetta
sounds more environmentally friendly since it uses renewable resources
like vegetable oil.

I wonder if I could convert my Civic to run on Grain Alochol? Nothing
like stopping by the ABC store once a week to fill up ;-)

-Weave

Tobias Crawley [tcrawley at gmail.com] wrote on Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at
11:02:30AM -0500:
> Steve,
> 
> I use waste vegetable oil from restaurants, which they give me for 
> free. So my cost is my time to collect and fitler the oil.
> 
> Tobias
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:00:55 -0500, Steve Litt 
> <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:51 am, Tobias Crawley wrote:
> > > I know we are all tinkerers at heart, so I thought there might be 
> > > some interest in this.
> > >
> > > I recently converted my Volkswagen Jetta TDI to run off of 
> > > vegetable oil, and will have it with me Thursday night. I can 
> > > demonstrate how the system works and answer any questions if 
> > > anyone is interested.
> > 
> > Do you have a cheap source for vegetable oil?
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
> > Steve Litt
> > Founder and acting president: GoLUG
> > http://www.golug.org
> > --
> --
> Tobias O. Crawley / tcrawley at gmail.com
> "Arrogance is quoting yourself." - Tobias O. Crawley
> "Ignorance is quoting others." - Aaron T. Dixon
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