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Greasecar

Discussion in 'Other Cars' started by seanwachob, May 27, 2004.

  1. seanwachob

    seanwachob New Member

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    Ran across this page the other day:

    http://www.greasecar.com/

    It's a conversion kit to allow pretty much any diesel car to run off of vegetable oil (a renewable, zero net CO2, sulpher free fuel for those that haven't heard ;) ). They say it burns pretty clean regarding NOX emissions. Has anyone seen any research on that?

    Can't want to for a clean burning diesel version of the prius to come out so I can hook one of these up!
     
    #1 seanwachob, May 27, 2004
  2. Wolfman

    Wolfman New Member

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    Yup, I've run my truck, and my tractor on homebrew biodiesel. My primary problem is having the time to process the stuff in quantities that I need.

    As for NOx emissions, biodiesel and WVO actually bump that figure up a bit. The added oxygen content in the biodiesel, acutally allow the engine to run a bit hotter - enough so that it was actually causing my tractor to overheat since it doesn't have a water pump to circulate coolant. Without the sulphur that's present in pump fuel though, NOx can be easilly addressed via a catalytic convertor.
     
    #2 Wolfman, May 27, 2004
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