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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 335355" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Any diesel car can use biodiesel. No conversion kit required. Pre-96 cars may need to have fuel lines upgraded to Viton. My car is stock and unmodified. I buy my biodiesel at a local Shell station that contracts with the manufacturer to sell it.It can also be made at home but I choose not to.</p><p>Biodiesel and vegetable oil/grease are not the same thing. Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil, but is has been "transetesterified" and had the glycerin removed. It is a direct substitute for diesel fuel. It can be mixed or blended with petroleum diesel in any percentage. It is necessary to do this in the winter, because biodiesel has a higher gel point than petroleum and will get cloudy and gooey in freezing temps. In the winter I run a 50/50 blend, in the summer I run straight biodiesel. I wish UPS would "go green" with its fleet, we could be running a B20 (20% biodiesel 80% petroleum) blend in all of our equipment with no warranty issues at all.</p><p>If you want to run vegetable oil in your diesel car it can be done but you need to install a second fuel tank with a heater. Veggie oil is too thick to run as fuel without being preheated. The normal method is to start the car on petroleum diesel and run it until the vegetable oil tank is up to about 190 degrees, then you switch over to the veggie oil. About 5 minutes before stopping the car you ned to purge the fuel lines or the veggie oil will thicken as it cools and clog them. This is a popular modification to do on old Mercedes and VW's, but it isnt really that easy to do with the more modern, electronically contolled models like mine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 335355, member: 14668"] Any diesel car can use biodiesel. No conversion kit required. Pre-96 cars may need to have fuel lines upgraded to Viton. My car is stock and unmodified. I buy my biodiesel at a local Shell station that contracts with the manufacturer to sell it.It can also be made at home but I choose not to. Biodiesel and vegetable oil/grease are not the same thing. Biodiesel is made from vegetable oil, but is has been "transetesterified" and had the glycerin removed. It is a direct substitute for diesel fuel. It can be mixed or blended with petroleum diesel in any percentage. It is necessary to do this in the winter, because biodiesel has a higher gel point than petroleum and will get cloudy and gooey in freezing temps. In the winter I run a 50/50 blend, in the summer I run straight biodiesel. I wish UPS would "go green" with its fleet, we could be running a B20 (20% biodiesel 80% petroleum) blend in all of our equipment with no warranty issues at all. If you want to run vegetable oil in your diesel car it can be done but you need to install a second fuel tank with a heater. Veggie oil is too thick to run as fuel without being preheated. The normal method is to start the car on petroleum diesel and run it until the vegetable oil tank is up to about 190 degrees, then you switch over to the veggie oil. About 5 minutes before stopping the car you ned to purge the fuel lines or the veggie oil will thicken as it cools and clog them. This is a popular modification to do on old Mercedes and VW's, but it isnt really that easy to do with the more modern, electronically contolled models like mine. [/QUOTE]
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