CHRIS aka GWH
2nd November 2006, 06:12 PM
did you see mythbusters monday night?
I didn't get to see the whole thing due to dad-taxi bookings and came in on the end of it. From what I gather they ran an old (looked 80's vintage) diesel merc on diesel & logged its fuel economy then swapped to straight, used fast food fryer oil. Ecoonomies were similar and no noticable performance change in the car (it is a merc though ;) ). I didn't notice if they tried a cold start though....
was interesting stuff, i wish i hadn't missed three quarters of it,
i remember in Landrover Owners Monthly (the UK rag) an article about a guy who used old vat oil and the government ended up making him log his travel so they could collect the tax they were missing in fuel revenue.
this may have been discussed already - i haven't checked and can be lazy at times :angel:
I didn't get to see the whole thing due to dad-taxi bookings and came in on the end of it. From what I gather they ran an old (looked 80's vintage) diesel merc on diesel & logged its fuel economy then swapped to straight, used fast food fryer oil. Ecoonomies were similar and no noticable performance change in the car (it is a merc though ;) ). I didn't notice if they tried a cold start though....
was interesting stuff, i wish i hadn't missed three quarters of it,
i remember in Landrover Owners Monthly (the UK rag) an article about a guy who used old vat oil and the government ended up making him log his travel so they could collect the tax they were missing in fuel revenue.
this may have been discussed already - i haven't checked and can be lazy at times :angel: