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    N*F*B* My veggie powered Benz.....

    Now, I havent become a tree-hugging hippie, but in order to balance out a 500 horse, fuel guzzlin' bird, I built this.

    Its an 85 MB 300D. Not a spot of rust, runs awesome, cruises nice, everything works and the best part is that I converted it to run on FREE waste vegetable oil. I just finished it and runs BETTER than on diesel. I have about 100 miles on used, waste oil so far. The pics show the car, the oil tank in the spare tire well, and my "fuel station" in my basement.
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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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    What kind of oil can you use? The car look in real good shape.
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    • #3
      you see, he is already getting ready for 4 more years for bush and raising gas prices! Well see if it pays off tomarrow.
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      • #4
        well..good luck. we run alot of biodiesel in the Govt. Ford wont let us go over 10% on thier new stuff...

        injectors plug up and all kinds of goop and gop start forming all over inside.. keep me abreast on your findings if you would. thanks.

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        • #5
          Now that's what I'm talking about - Does it get good "oil" mileage? Hopefully you have a good supplier of waste oil, because that stuff is expensive when you by it new at the grocery store


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          • #6
            Originally posted by N20LT4Bird
            Now, I havent become a tree-hugging hippie, but in order to balance out a 500 horse, fuel guzzlin' bird, I built this.

            Its an 85 MB 300D. Not a spot of rust, runs awesome, cruises nice, everything works and the best part is that I converted it to run on FREE waste vegetable oil. I just finished it and runs BETTER than on diesel. I have about 100 miles on used, waste oil so far. The pics show the car, the oil tank in the spare tire well, and my "fuel station" in my basement.
            Yea but the best thing is it smells like french fries. LOL
            2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning

            1995 Z28, many mods, SOLD

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Jeff 95 Z28
              Yea but the best thing is it smells like french fries. LOL
              "French" fries - thats a bad thing isn't it? How about "Freedom" fries instead?


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              • #8
                Originally posted by Gary94Formula
                What kind of oil can you use? The car look in real good shape.

                I use waste vegetable oil from a restaurant down the road from me. I get at least 30 gallons a week from them for free.
                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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                • #9
                  Originally posted by ONLNTM5
                  "French" fries - thats a bad thing isn't it? How about "Freedom" fries instead?
                  I started to call it German fries since it's a Mercedes.
                  2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning

                  1995 Z28, many mods, SOLD

                  A proud member of the "F-Body Dirty Dozen"

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by wolfman
                    well..good luck. we run alot of biodiesel in the Govt. Ford wont let us go over 10% on thier new stuff...

                    injectors plug up and all kinds of goop and gop start forming all over inside.. keep me abreast on your findings if you would. thanks.
                    I thought about the potential pitfalls, and I have done my research on this.

                    There were some people who thought (and still think) they could just run veggie oil in their car by just pouring it into the tank running it. Well, it works - for a while. Then, you run into deposits and coking that damage internal components.

                    The key is to run HOT vegetable oil. The car is started on diesel fuel and hot antifireeze is pumped through various heat exchangers which heat the oil to the point where its over 150 degrees. The car is switched over by the flip of a switch, to veggie. If its hot, thinned oil, it can spray out the injector and atomize just like diesel fuel and you dont run into the coking, and deposits. There have been vehicles run for over 100k on this method without a problem. In fact the veggie lubricates the injection and lift pumps better than diesel!
                    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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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jeff 95 Z28
                      I started to call it German fries since it's a Mercedes.


                      I was wondering why there were so many fat girls following me all the time, and then I got a wiff of the exhaust!

                      Actually, it does smell pretty good. Just like your cooking in the frying pan.
                      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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                      • #12
                        How's the emissions on that thing?
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by ryan34
                          How's the emissions on that thing?
                          People laughed at me and said "oh that thing will be billowing smoke down the road if it runs at all". Well, its a lot cleaner than diesel. It doesnt smoke at all and it literally smells like youre cooking in a frying pan. It actually smells good! Im sure theres CO emitted, but its nothing like the diesel fuel. Im also getting about 25 miles to the gallon!
                          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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                          • #14
                            Thats awsome, are you going to have to get it "sniffed"?
                            2006 Saturn Ion Redline
                            2003 Mits. Eclipse Spyder

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by ryan34
                              Thats awsome, are you going to have to get it "sniffed"?
                              no emissions tests on it.
                              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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