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    July 6th, 2003 09:11 AM #21
    hey.. i saw this article sa reader's digest (july 2003 issue) about cooking oil being used as fuel sa cars.. i was just wondering how it works.. and bkt (accdg to the article) the car peformed better daw..
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    July 6th, 2003 12:48 PM #22
    hmmm..that i gotta try......but i doubt.
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    July 6th, 2003 03:53 PM #23
    pwede ata gawing biodiesel yung cooking oil hehe
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    July 6th, 2003 04:06 PM #24
    baka specially designed yung internals ng makina, or modified sya for using cooking oil?
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    July 6th, 2003 06:55 PM #25
    no mods needed, bbc uk also covered it. just some additive to cooking oil and a curing period for the chemicals to set it and it performs just like diesel. not really surprising, they're basically downgrading cooking oil to diesel level.
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    July 6th, 2003 07:01 PM #26
    AFAIK, you also have to adjust something in the fuel pump
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    July 6th, 2003 07:34 PM #27
    Diesel engine's used to be called Multi-Fuel engines, if anyone is old enough to remember the old REO's of the WWII era.

    Diesel engine's can use any sort of fuel that can combust but there are lubrication issues to the injection pump.

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    I only remember the REO's because we used to sell truck parts(U.S. pa ang uso nun, not Japanese) when I was in kindergarten, not because naabutan ko ang WWII. ;)
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    July 7th, 2003 08:14 AM #28
    kung sakasakali, ang bango ng exhaust nyan.
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    July 7th, 2003 08:36 AM #29
    Yup, used cooking oil (ang dami nyan sa mga restaurants) can be treated with an additive and after letting it stand for a few days will be useable as fuel in a stock diesel engine.

    Costs will be much cheaper than diesel since mura lang yung used cooking oil. Also, yung exhaust mo will smell like french fries.

    :-)
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    July 8th, 2003 12:20 AM #30
    yup. cooking oil can be used as fuel to diesel engines. Downside, if you are hungry, you might find yourself thinking of french fries more often than before. hehehe
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Alternative Fuel Source: Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) aka Used Cooking Oil [MERGED]