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

[Tommy Williams]

Being a ex-grease monkey myself, I would LOVE to take a peek at the
system. More than looking, I'm more intrested in the time you had to
put into the conversion, and what kind of custom fabricaiton (if any)
you had to do. I myself am beginning to look at a hydrogen conversion
kit, but so far the cost of the conversion kit far out-weighs the
saving that will result.


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:17:39 -0800 (PST), Turnpike Man
<turnpike420 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> awesome! I used to go to the Tarheel Regatta every summer as a kid... we're
> talking 1978-1986 range or so... can't remember the years exactly.  What class
> boat?  I preferred watching the Jersey Skiffs and the SS's (like bobby
> commander drove i think)
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jim Wright <JWright at NetCentrics.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > 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
> > > > --
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> > > "Ignorance is quoting others." - Aaron T. Dixon
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