Re: [biofuel] more svo questions, how to heat when car is cold?? and cost of oil?

2001-06-16 Thread steve spence
we have not used a secondary pump, but may need to. let you know more next week. we don't switch over until the aux tank has warmed up, we run on biodiesel (or diesel) until tank hits 170F. This takes about 20 minutes at highway speeds. waste veggie oil is free. Steve Spence Subscribe to the

Re: [biofuel] more svo questions, how to heat when car is cold?? and cost of oil?

2001-06-16 Thread steve spence
heated waste veggie oil is pumped just fine by the injector pump. what did you have in mind that is thicker? Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.com Palm Pilot Pages -

Re: [biofuel] more svo questions, how to heat when car is cold?? and cost of oil?

2001-06-16 Thread eric almanzan
so you do use an auxilary tank. that was just something i just came up with in my head, so im on the right track, good. next week some time my grad cylinders should be coming in the mail, im going to brew up a few liters first to see how it goes. but ive already figured out how to do 40

Re: [biofuel] more svo questions, how to heat when car is cold?? and cost of oil?

2001-06-16 Thread Edward Beggs
Steve, what are you guys doing for filtering prior to tank and then as on-board filtering? If I missed this in an earlier post, my apologies. Ed B. www.biofuels.ca - Original Message - From: steve spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:27 PM

Re: [biofuel] more svo questions, how to heat when car is cold?? and cost of oil?

2001-06-16 Thread steve spence
a cloth filter for the first run, coffee filters before it goes into the tank. standard diesel fuel filter once heated. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.com Palm Pilot Pages -

[biofuel] more svo questions, how to heat when car is cold?? and cost of oil?

2001-06-15 Thread eric almanzan
Ive been giving it some thought, and I think that filling the gas tank with veggie oil and supplying a heavy duty pump to push the oil up to the engine bay, where it will run through the cooling system and get up to heat, and then from there enter the injectors. How do you thin out the oil when

Re: [biofuel] more svo questions, how to heat when car is cold?? and cost of oil?

2001-06-15 Thread Martin Klingensmith
The plan is to use 'yellow grease' or used vegetable oil from restaurants, etc. It's free, most of the time. Your process would be to filter the WVO [waste vegetable oil] and remove water so it could go right into your car. I've been wondering how a fuel injector pump would handle something that