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Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel

Posted by michael on from the smells-like-french-fries dept.

TinyTim writes "Sure, you could buy expensive biodiesel for you car - or you can hack your diesel to run on filtered vegetable oil. Kits take a few hours to install and cost about $800, but you can get your fuel free from restaurant deep-fryers (the filters are ~$10/2000mi). Supposedly no loss of performance or mileage, and you can change between diesel and veggie oil with the flick of a switch. A previous article mentioned the theoretical possibility, but it looks like kits are now available from greasecar.com."

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  1. Spot on the Driveway.. by lionchild · · Score: 4, Funny

    And if you thought you were leaking oil before, now you have to identify if it's veggie oil, or if it's motor oil.

    I suppose you could try tasting it..you might get to know your fuel by taste! Bob's Burger Stand and his unmistakable motor fuel..er, deep fat frier grease!

    I can see it now: You drive into your local Drive-Thru and order a burger, fries, shake and 5 gallons of their day-old fryer grease!

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  2. Smells like...? by KILNA · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember reading that running on vegetable oil smells more or less like french fries. Anyone who has worked fast food can imagine the smell of burned grease-trap fuel. *wretch*

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    1. Re:Smells like...? by makisupa · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes...

      I recall working at Wendy's and taking out the fryer grease...

      Pouring it into a dumpster that had 400 gallons of what smelled like rancid shit. It had a four-inch-thick congealed craptastic skin on it that belched farty gasses when breached.

      I don't care if it smells like french fries, as long as it doesn't belch rancid fart stink.

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    2. Re:Smells like...? by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't think the average guy willing to make this mod will have to worry about it a whole lot. A girl would actually have to get into his car to be offended by it's smell.

  3. As an experienced trucker, I know. by Procrasturbator · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't run my truck off vegetable oil. I'd be too tempted to cook chicken in it as I drive. Then again, I'm already tempted to drink the diesel for the ethanol, so it's really a toss-up.

    1. Re:As an experienced trucker, I know. by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 4, Funny
      Then again, I'm already tempted to drink the diesel for the ethanol, so it's really a toss-up.


      Folks, just remember this quote the next time you're trying to decide between speeding up to get in FRONT of the trucker, or slowing down to pull in BEHIND him.
      Or my new favorite third option, get off the interstate as quickly as possible.
  4. Obligatory Simpson's quote... by dark_panda · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bart: When you want grease, go to the source. Good old Krusty Burger.

    Homer: Oh, I'll say. Look at that red-headed kid. There must be twenty dollars worth of grease on his forehead alone.

    Bart: I was thinking more of the deep-fryer.

    Homer: All right, we'll try it your way.

    J

  5. There goes that insult.... by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 4, Funny

    If someone calls your car a grease-bucket, all you'll be able to do is smile.....

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