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Rachel Carson SPOT link
wordsmith wrote in
m: but as to your Smart car, are you going to convert it to a veg-o-matic? Thanks for the info. No conversion is necessary in warm South Carolina where it rarely gets very cold here on the ocean near the Gulf Stream. We haven't had snow for years. I'm running both a '73 220D and an '83 300TD estate wagon on a mixture of 1 gallon of mineral spirits in 50 gallons of cleaned, used vegoil from some Chinese restaurants. In winter, I simply double the mineral spirits to make it thinner. My truck is a 5.7L GM diesel V-8 Chevy stepvan and it has a Frybrid heater in it I bought by mistake before I found out how easy it was to make my own fuel. There's no magic, extensive chemical engineering or anything of the sort....er, ah, unless you get it on your jeans. The restaurants fry a lot of seafood here in seafood country, so the oil sometimes makes the diesel smell like fish oil. It never smells like french fries as that boils off during the cooking with the water vapor. I'd run the Smart on the mix without conversion. Others are doing it with good results. The US distributor doesn't want us to have the diesel for some stupid reason probably related to Big Oil controlling EPA and, of course, dealer profits servicing gasoline engines often....what killed the GM EV-1 electric car years ago. |
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