First things first you are here because you have heard some crazy story about how you can run a diesel powered automobile on vegetable oils.

So what I am going to do is give you a basic description right from the start as too how this can be accomplished. There are two ways to safely run your diesel automobile on vegetable oil.

The first way is to use bio-diesel, bio-diesel is a fuel made through a chemical reaction between vegetable oil, methanol, and lye. using this method there is little conversion that needs to be done the auto, usually just need to switch a few hoses to bio-diesel compatible hoses. Every time you make bio-diesel you must go through the same process, which although not overly complicated but more complicated than using the oil straight.

The second way is to use the vegetable oil (VO) straight, this requires a fuel system that adds a second tank some fuel switching valves and some heat exchangers to your vehicle. You see the oil must be heated to a minimum of 160° F. to burn properly and not cause excess wear to your engine. How do you heat the fuel? Well you have 3 heat exchangers (HE), which use hot coolant from your engine to heat your VO fuel, that are installed, one before your injector pump, one on your VO fuel filter and one in the tank. Your fuel lines from and to the tank are also heated by the coolant lines running back to the fuel tank. With this system you still have to run diesel or bio-diesel in your main tank to start the car up to warm the fuel and to shut it down so no VO stays in your Injector pump to turn solid from getting cold.

We sell and install fuel systems so that you can run your car on Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO) which includes the use of Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO)

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