running my car on vegetable oil

Disconnect the fuel tank, connect a 2 litre bottle of vegetable oil in it's place and start your engine. The car uses new vegetable oil (SVO) used vegetable oil (WVO) chip shop oil or diesel. Any fuel will do.

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• veggie
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• combustion

[sparklerbombg]

vegetable oil wont work on a gasoline engine?

[davemortensen]

diesel engines operate on direct compression ignition. Air is compressed as the piston rises in the cylinder, gets very hot and when you spray in diesel it auto-ignites. Petrol(gas) engines work by sucking in petrol(gas) as the piston drops, then compressing it(but not very much) as the piston rises, and then setting off a spark to ignite the fuel/air mix. Very different methods that should not be mixed.

[jouk45]

reason is the oil was to thick, just ad 3ml of white spirit to every 750ml of raw vegatable oil, leave for a week, problem solved,

[davemortensen]

oh if only life was so simple.Fuel pump/injectors designed for nice thin runny fossil diesel + really thick cold veggie oil=pump failure.Add 3ml white spirit and wait a year and veggie oil will still be exactly same thickness(Any doubters try rheology viscosity test for yourself after a week, I have!!!).Fact: all diesels will run on 100% veggie oil(no thinners) but all will fail,some very quickly, and all catastrophically. Don't waste money and time on white spirits

[guineapiggyman]

this is kinda retarded, considering veggie oil is WAY more per gallon than gas. how is this helping anytihing?

[davemortensen]

@guineapiggyman I don't know where you shop but veggie oil in Asda is £1.05 and diesel at the pumps is £1.36. But collect used veggie oil from restaurants and most give it to you free!!!! Even if your gas is government subsidised, free used veggie is a winner. Besides, veggie oil is grown fresh each year so is sustainable, what happens when the middle east oil wells run dry? Wait for a few million years for the next batch????

[guineapiggyman]

@davemortensen well, im in the US, and gas is $4.89 a gallon. beg oil is $7 a gallon. btw, did you know that china and japan use 7 times the gas that the US and UK use combined? and the mid-east oil wells only hold 1/20 the worlds oil. most of the earths oil is in colorado and canada. (and you dont have to wait millions of years for more. you do realize that everyday new oil is created, just like it has been for years... naturally)

[davemortensen]

The pre-heaters you talk about are glow plugs. In the winter the engine is stone cold. Heat generated when air in the cylinder is compressed dissipates almost instantly, meaning difficult starting. Glow plugs provide a very hot tip, often 400c or above, to help the diesel ignite until the engine warms up. This is very different to a fuel pre-heater which heats veggie oil up, making it really runny(good for pump) and better able to vapourise(better combustion). Yes I know engines

[davemortensen]

when very clever highly paid motor design engineers make pumps, injectors, computers etc for diesel engines they assume you will actually use diesel.Veggie oil is NOT THE SAME as diesel.It is thick which strains pumps beyond what they were designed for and it does not vapourise when pumped through very fine injector nozzles perfected for nice runny fossil diesel.It sprays in fine blobs and does not burn completely in the fraction of a second before the exhaust valve opens.Maybe this is not good?

[Watsupwiya]

Do you actually know anything about the hot air engine or any engine for that matter ?