Diesel Veg oil conversion kits

kestor

what about running the veg oil through a small bore copper pipe wraped around your exhaust pipe might be a bit lumpy for a few seconds until it heats up sounds cheep to me

paul_h

Wig wrote:

If like Munkster you do it illegally you risk having your car confiscated. If you do it legally you pay 47p per litre duty.

New oil from Tesco @ 45p litre then becomes not worth it except in an environmental sense. Free used oil from chip shops works out at half the price of normal diesel.

You can look into transetrification as a process of treating the oil before use if you do this you can claim duty at around 22p litre but if customs decide to pay you a visit and decide your oil is not transetrified enough you will get a backdated bill for all your oil @ 47p litre and possibly a fine, court appearance and whatever else they decide to throw at you.

HMCE have been imposing the 47.1p rate of duty on SVO recently, rather than the 27.1p rate for biodiesel which was being accepted, but there is a lot of discussion about the changes, HMCE's definition of 'processing' and what is now required to satisfy HMCE for the bio duty rate...

http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/index.php

There's some very interesting info here...;)

Also worth Googling, and searching MSE as this has been discussed before.


One word of warning - if your car has a Lucas/CAV pump, don't try putting straight veg oil in it. It is well known that these pumps cannot cope with the increased viscosity and will almost definitely fail, leading to an expensive pump replacement. Catastrophic failures have been known to occur almost immediately with these pumps when attempting to use fuel with a high SVO fuel content, but even a lower SVO content can cause failure in a relatively short time.

Bosch pumps (as fitted to most VW and other engines) are reported to handle SVO very well.

budgetbus

i need to check my corsa 15TD out then....thinking about SVO ......its a isuzu engine....ive been told that most jap engines are fine.....