Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel

Posted by michael on Friday July 19, 2002 @08:29AM 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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Obligatory Simpsons reference by Skyshadow · 2002-07-19 08:46 · Score: 1, Redundant

Ay! That's Willy's retirement grease!

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Why drive a vegetable oil powered car..... by heyitsme · 2002-07-19 10:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

.... when you can drive a hemp-powered car?

www.hempcar.org

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