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    NFB: My new project car

    I just put a down payment on a 1980 Mercedes 300sd. 150k, runs and drives good, everything works, no rust etc. Its a pretty nice car according to the seller. Now before you all laugh at my Mercedes, hear me out. Im doing the vegetable oil conversion on it. The diesel engine will run on FREE used vegetable oil. Its a pretty cool idea that I learned about this summer at a conference at Ohio Technical College. So, im gonna try it! The bird guzzles so much gas, I figure I should make up for it with something else.

    Oh, if anyone is in the CHatham, NJ area and wouldnt mind swinging by to take a look at it before friday, I would appreciate it. You never know when somebody is trying to pull one over on ebay.

    Heres the ebay pics:
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    96 WS6 Formula: Ram Air, 383 Stroker, Ported LT4 Heads and Manifold, 1.6 Crane Rollers, 58MM T.B., AS&M Headers, Borla Exhaust, Meziere Elec. H2O Pump, Canton Deep Sump Oil Pan, 100 HP OF TNT N2O!! , T56 Conversion w/ Pro 5.0 shifter, SPEC Stage 3 Clutch, Hotchkiss Subframe Conn., Lakewood Adj. Panhard Bar, Spohn Adj. LCA's, BMR Adj. T.A., Custom 12 bolt w/ 3:73's, Moser Axles, Eaton Posi, Moser Girdle
    11.6 @ 123mph (1.6 60' - getting there )
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    Pics are too small. Heres the ended ebay auction:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2491095696
    96 WS6 Formula: Ram Air, 383 Stroker, Ported LT4 Heads and Manifold, 1.6 Crane Rollers, 58MM T.B., AS&M Headers, Borla Exhaust, Meziere Elec. H2O Pump, Canton Deep Sump Oil Pan, 100 HP OF TNT N2O!! , T56 Conversion w/ Pro 5.0 shifter, SPEC Stage 3 Clutch, Hotchkiss Subframe Conn., Lakewood Adj. Panhard Bar, Spohn Adj. LCA's, BMR Adj. T.A., Custom 12 bolt w/ 3:73's, Moser Axles, Eaton Posi, Moser Girdle
    11.6 @ 123mph (1.6 60' - getting there )

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    • #3
      Originally posted by N20LT4Bird
      Now before you all laugh at my Mercedes, hear me out. Im doing the vegetable oil conversion on it. The diesel engine will run on FREE used vegetable oil.
      When you pull up to a traffic light, people are gonna smell that exhaust and ask you for some fish & chips, onion rings, fries, fried chicken, or whatever greasy food that oil was used to cook. Heck, you're going to be spending all your free time trolling in back of the fast food joints just to rob their grease pits. Of course, now, if you sweettalk the missus over at the school cafeteria, she just might let you run a line from the kitchen fryer over to the auto shop and you can just gas up there at the end of the week. But how you going to go on a trip? Milk jugs of the stuff in the back of the trunk?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Kevin - Blown 95 TA
        When you pull up to a traffic light, people are gonna smell that exhaust and ask you for some fish & chips, onion rings, fries, fried chicken, or whatever greasy food that oil was used to cook. Heck, you're going to be spending all your free time trolling in back of the fast food joints just to rob their grease pits. Of course, now, if you sweettalk the missus over at the school cafeteria, she just might let you run a line from the kitchen fryer over to the auto shop and you can just gas up there at the end of the week. But how you going to go on a trip? Milk jugs of the stuff in the back of the trunk?

        i had a lady that wanted to buy an 04 f-350 desiel at work and she wanted to know if we could retrofit it to run on used cooking oil..i asked here where she was going to get teh 30+ gallons of oil from lol..then sold her the truck

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        • #5
          It's a cool idea. Saw it on TV a while back.

          It's free for now but if it catches on you will have to pay for the oil too.

          The demand will go up and somebody will want to make a buck of it.
          97 Trans Am A4 more or less stock (Mods: WS6 Ram Air with Fernco & K&N, 12 disc CD changer, power antenna, SLP Fan Switch, LS1 Aluminum DS, Borla Cat back, McCord power plate, Spohn tower brace, Sirius, HID fog lights)


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          • #6
            Originally posted by Kevin - Blown 95 TA
            When you pull up to a traffic light, people are gonna smell that exhaust and ask you for some fish & chips, onion rings, fries, fried chicken, or whatever greasy food that oil was used to cook. Heck, you're going to be spending all your free time trolling in back of the fast food joints just to rob their grease pits. Of course, now, if you sweettalk the missus over at the school cafeteria, she just might let you run a line from the kitchen fryer over to the auto shop and you can just gas up there at the end of the week. But how you going to go on a trip? Milk jugs of the stuff in the back of the trunk?
            HA HA! Your right about the smell!

            I thought about the legistics of it all and it will be a PITA to some extent, but I am planning on putting together a deal with a couple of local restaurants to get their oil on a schedule. Once every two weeks or whatever I would spend an hour or two and make a few stops. I would keep the oil in a couple of 55 gallon drums in the garage and just hand pump it into the car. If I go on a trip I would have the 20 gallon tank, plus I would take 3 or 4 five gallon jugs in the trunk with me. The car gets 30mpg and if I run out, oh well, I just fill on diesel. I just think it would be fun and different.
            96 WS6 Formula: Ram Air, 383 Stroker, Ported LT4 Heads and Manifold, 1.6 Crane Rollers, 58MM T.B., AS&M Headers, Borla Exhaust, Meziere Elec. H2O Pump, Canton Deep Sump Oil Pan, 100 HP OF TNT N2O!! , T56 Conversion w/ Pro 5.0 shifter, SPEC Stage 3 Clutch, Hotchkiss Subframe Conn., Lakewood Adj. Panhard Bar, Spohn Adj. LCA's, BMR Adj. T.A., Custom 12 bolt w/ 3:73's, Moser Axles, Eaton Posi, Moser Girdle
            11.6 @ 123mph (1.6 60' - getting there )

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Black97
              It's a cool idea. Saw it on TV a while back.

              It's free for now but if it catches on you will have to pay for the oil too.

              The demand will go up and somebody will want to make a buck of it.
              Thats one of the things I've been worrying about. but we're a ways off yet. Plus, the average person wouldnt know how or even care to go through the trouble. Its really only a project for the weird ones
              96 WS6 Formula: Ram Air, 383 Stroker, Ported LT4 Heads and Manifold, 1.6 Crane Rollers, 58MM T.B., AS&M Headers, Borla Exhaust, Meziere Elec. H2O Pump, Canton Deep Sump Oil Pan, 100 HP OF TNT N2O!! , T56 Conversion w/ Pro 5.0 shifter, SPEC Stage 3 Clutch, Hotchkiss Subframe Conn., Lakewood Adj. Panhard Bar, Spohn Adj. LCA's, BMR Adj. T.A., Custom 12 bolt w/ 3:73's, Moser Axles, Eaton Posi, Moser Girdle
              11.6 @ 123mph (1.6 60' - getting there )

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