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

[Tobias Crawley]

Hi Weave,

I figured the discussion tomorrow would go that way, with "show and
tell" being the catalyst. If you are planning on being there, I can
attempt to answer all of your questions then. If not, let me know, and
I can do it via email/phone.

Tobias


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:20:22 -0500, Brian Weaver <brianweaver at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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
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