Can you run an unleaded fuel car with vegetable oil or “biodiesel”?

By admin | Jul 30, 2009
ryanconnarton asked:


will this work on any car? where can I find information on this topic?

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5 Comments so far
  1. Jim B August 2, 2009 5:50 am

    No!

    Cars can be converted to run on vegetable oil but cannot be run that way with no mods.

    Most cars that are made to run on diesel can run on a very high percentage of biodiesel with no modification but gasoline engines cannot run on the heavier biofuels.

    A gasoline engine will accept and run well on a small percentage of ethanol enhanced fuel but needs modification to accept anything more than 15%

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  2. thor August 4, 2009 3:47 pm

    Would work much better in a diesel vehicle. You can add a cup or two per tank of gasoline, but why bother? It will smoke horribly and kill your catalytic converter.

  3. mike August 5, 2009 11:15 am

    global warming? turn off your PC oh no not going to go that far

  4. ♥☺ bratiskim∞! ☺♥ August 8, 2009 10:31 am

    You’d have to get the engine adjusted to use veggie oil or any type of bio-fuel. It’s possible. A guy changed his car engine to use veggie oil. Instead of harmful pollution, water droplets came out of the tailpipe. Plus, he got PAID doing this because restaurants want a cheap way to dispose of their cooking oil. The only problem he faced was when he used oil that cooked fish…I saw it on the news.

  5. Greg W August 8, 2009 3:26 pm

    NO!!! it has to be an engine designed for diesel.
    there are plenty of resources, the best I found is Joshua Tickell’s “From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank also check out another site is and they sell conversion kits.
    I have used his book and converted a schoolbus to run on veg oil and it really works, but you have to start with a diesel engine and add a second HEATED fuelsystem to run on veg oil, or you can make your own bio diesel and run it in any diesel engine without modifications.

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