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7 years or so from now.. "Grandpa! smoke the corvette!"

The best part is that you'd get to leave a nice cloud of nasty black diesel smoke for him to eat.

The word of the day is...

Banks.
 
Actually, I'm reading up on running on filtered vegetable oil.
It seems that the restaurants have to pay to have old oil carted off and disposed of.
They will give it someone willing to take it in lieu of paying to have it disposed of.
This month's issue of Diesel Power has a pretty good article on it.
I'm still trying to figure out what you do with the crap you filter...
But apparently, the vehicle runs quieter, and with an exhaust that smells like french fries.
 
B_B_B
my camaro rums about 2100 r's at 80 thats with pos 2.73 gears

you want to increase milege read up about propane injection its kinda like nitro for your diesel only in no way can it detonate and blow things up
so you can run it all the time no worries all you need to do is mount a propane bottle somewhere
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The Excursion is also equipped with a dual mode trans. I can push a button on the gearshift and put the trans in to "tow" mode, which will increase the acceleration by causing the transmission to hold each gear till near redline.
My wife is rather obsessed with maintaining stock condition, and the sanctity of the warranty.

I am rather pleased with her performance as she sits.
I drove her to Independence, MO today (about 80 miles round trip).
Reached 6,000 total miles on the vehicle as well.
Per the computer she averaged 18.7 mpg. I also filled up today.
A bit over 25 gallons of #2 diesel. The bill was quite high. ($65+)
But that included the gallon of windshield washer fluid.

I may go for the K & N filter in the near future, but I spent enough buying the damn truck. I'm not ready to drop another $5,000 into it for all the Banks engineering stuff.
I see the benefits, but I'm not ready to drop the cash.
 
If you do run it off WVO (waste vegetable oil) don't you only have to pay taxes on it?
 
With the Veggie Oil, there is no cost.
The big thing I see becoming a cost issue, and a convenience issue, is disposal of the crap you filter out of the used oil.

It requires a tank, and a method to heat the oil as it is thicker than diesel fuel.
This will keep it from coking up the injectors. You have to run regular diesel while waiting for the veggie oil to warm up.

Of course there is also the cost of the stuff you need to "convert" your vehicle to run on the veggie oil. (About $2,000 to 3,000). But you'd realistically make up that cost in about 3-6 months if you have any significant travel. Heck, I run at least 400 miles weekly. That's about 20 gallons a week.
So, if diesel runs $2.50 a gallon, that's $50 bucks a week or just over $200 a month, on just commuting fuel. More if you add all ancillary travel.
 
Wow.. I never knew you had to heat it up.. That's interesting. So it's one of those "lower your fuel cost" schemes that will actually pay for itelf?

Sounds like a good deal.

Are the cetane(that's diesel's "octane" right?) and power output levels comparable between WVO and diesel?
 
Yes, the power levels are similar.
One of the Guys on Spike TV's "Trucks" had Gale Banks short bed F250 Diesel out and was running it on veggie oil.
The thing was very quick, and he commented on the exhaust smelling faintly of french fries.:lol:
 
Sweet! or salty, in the case of french fries. With that terrible attempt at a joke I think i'll step away from the computer.
 

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