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

[Jeff_in_Atl]

It seams like I remember that only gasoline cars get emissions. Diesels will get them I think in 2008. Everything else doesn't have to be tested.

[wolfdogs]

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.

makes perfect sense. it todays world, of congress pushing alternative fuel down the gov's throat... i wonder why the big three have not done this... it would be a "diesel hybrid"....... right now... they just allow GM max 5% biodiesel and Ford 10%...... for a while..DaimlerChrysler said "".. now they go 5%. anymore than 10%...and it pluggs em up for sure.

[Jeff_in_Atl]

Can you put nitrous on it? Inject N20 and vegetable oil?

[TexasFBody]

It's a kick-ass idea. Not all too marketable, just because if everyone did it, that would create a demand for used veggie oil, and then we'd be paying for it, just like gasoline. Plus, technically, if you're not paying a motor vehicle fuel tax on the oil, it is illegal. But that's one of those things that a few people can do, and it's a great idea. Funny thing about it is, restaurants actually pay money to have used vegetable oil hauled off....alot of money. And you take it away for free, they're getting a great deal too...Now just make it run off of dirty old motor oil, cuz there's lots of garages and lube shops that spend tons of money getting that oil hauled away. Way to go buddy, I'm jealous!

[Gary94Formula]

What about Peanut oil? I usally have a few 5 gallon containers left over after I'm finished deep frying turkeys...

[Jeff_in_Atl]

http://www.greasecar.com/
http://www.a-car.com/fuel/vegoil.html
http://www.biodiesel.org/
"PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL CONTAINING BIODIESEL TAX INCENTIVE "
http://www.vegoilmotoring.com/

[ONLNTM5]

I started to call it German fries since it's a Mercedes.

I can imagine that those German engineers would have a heart attack if they knew what he was doing with one of their "creations"

[N20LT4Bird]

I can imagine that those German engineers would have a heart attack if they knew what he was doing with one of their "creations"

Actually the diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil.

[N20LT4Bird]

It's a kick-ass idea. Not all too marketable, just because if everyone did it, that would create a demand for used veggie oil, and then we'd be paying for it, just like gasoline. Plus, technically, if you're not paying a motor vehicle fuel tax on the oil, it is illegal. But that's one of those things that a few people can do, and it's a great idea. Funny thing about it is, restaurants actually pay money to have used vegetable oil hauled off....alot of money. And you take it away for free, they're getting a great deal too...Now just make it run off of dirty old motor oil, cuz there's lots of garages and lube shops that spend tons of money getting that oil hauled away. Way to go buddy, I'm jealous!

I dont think its super marketable as-is. Its a PITA to pick up the oil and filter it. I probably spend an hour or two per week doing it.....not a lot of people are willing to do that. Not to mention, its smelly and greasy. Most would rather pull up to the pump and have someone filler er up.

As far as the tax goes, there currently is no tax on it becasue it it technically a food product. Hopefully, this is the way it stays.....

[ONLNTM5]

Actually the diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil.

Peanut oil is also the best for cooking fried foods - that's been my experience

[Dave M]

There was a news article on the local tv station about a kid who converted his VW diesel over to veggie oil. Ran real well. It would certainly be interesting to try. The news channel said there are kits available for the conversion, if I remember correctly they ran about $1,000.

[N20LT4Bird]

There was a news article on the local tv station about a kid who converted his VW diesel over to veggie oil. Ran real well. It would certainly be interesting to try. The news channel said there are kits available for the conversion, if I remember correctly they ran about $1,000.

Ive got about 500 into mine, but I bought my racor filter off of ebay rather than through the conversion company. That saved my about 100 bucks.