[DMCForum] Re: Gas alternatives, then?

["Joe OBrien" <joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well I for one am in the process in the next month or so to convert a 
nice Diesel Rabbit I bought off eBay.

http://tinyurl.com/8xhoy

Me and my father will be performing the greasel conversion on it 
hopefully soon.

I'll be converting the trunk space to use the 12 gallon greasel tank. 

http://www.greasel.com/Cars.html

Then afterwards, I'll be using diesel fual only for the startup and 
shutdown cycles of the engine.


I would like to maybe have this set up before winter, but at least by 
next spring. Hell, gas again went up another 14 cents overnight again 
fom $2.55 to $2.69.

I can't get this installed and functional soon enough.

Hopefully I can report back someday soon when I'm driving that car 
ony my own home brew gasoline.

Me and my father have had volkswagen diesels for years, but sold the 
las tone right when the vegetable oil phase was coming into play.

Both our diesels we sold were used in vegetable oil conversions, and 
still are running today.

Luckily the VW I just picked up is in MUCH better shape than the ones 
we sold. The last one was sold with 278,490 miles on it.

Hopefully I can start using it soon as well.


Later,


Joe









--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> Ryan Wright wrote:
> 
> > So, with the current gas situation, and with oil companies being 
Evil
> > (TM), what alternatives, if any, exist?
> 
> LPG. Available nationwide in the UK for your car. Not suitable for 
> positively aspirated engines, but fine for everything else. I'm 
looking 
> into an LPG conversion for a DeLorean.
> 
> It's all stupid though, the best, most renewable source of motive 
energy 
> is bio-diesel, but you guys don't drive diesels.... bio-derv can be 
made 
> from any kind of vegetable or animal-sourced fat, including already 
used 
> oil and the by-product is glycerine. It's 100% bio-degradable, less 
> toxic than salt and will work in any diesel engine without 
> modifications. AND it does not contain sulphur, so no sulphur-
dioxide 
> emissions means no acid rain
> 
> Martin

---

YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS

•  Visit your group "DMCForum" on the web.
   
•  To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
   DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   
•  Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

---