Thread: mythbusters monday night

There is a person around my area with a D2 TD5 chip machine, I wish them all the luck in the world but wouldn't be doing it myself

I saw mythbusters monday - the bit on used veg oil went well. Very sketchy of course, and in all probability a nice warm day in San Francisco. Didn't show the exhaust fumes - and it seemed to be a hot start. A merc that age would be indirect injection, unlike Tdi's /Td5, which means (I believe) that the size of the merc injector nozzle holes are bigger - allowing use of less viscous fuel. Also different style of injector pump- inline rather that rotary. It would gunk up the engine a bit, but wouldn't kill it. Quoted 33 but I think they meant 23mpg doing laps around an old airfield. Presume nice steady driving - works out at 10L/100 k, which if they drove about 60km/h without stopping is OK. 33mpg works out at 7L/100k - a little too optomistic. You didn't miss much re the veg oil, they only showed getting it and straining it through lab paper - then the dino diesel run, then the veg run.

My father got some cheap canola oil from ALDI (it was $1.40 a litre when diesel was $1.50 so he bought 100 litres!). When he runs it in his 80 Series crusher he gets better performance and economy, but he needs to start and stop on diesel (he has the twin tank setup on the standard 4.2 diesel).