Vegetable Oil Fuels and Diesels
-Reduce dependency on foreign oil
-Nearly eliminate fuel costs with waste vegetable oil (WVO)
-Reduce emissions
I converted this 1983 Mercedes to run on waste vegetable oil (WVO)
in the spring of 2006. I am an 18 year old, high school student and
I wanted to help save the environment and save some money on
fuel each year at the same time. This Mercedes 300D has
two years
running flawlessly on soybean oil with no change in performance
but less smoke from the tailpipe.
A straight vegetable oil
conversion for any diesel vehicle, such as the one I used from
www.greasecar.com, can
cost between $800 and $3000 based on the contents of the kit.
For cost, filtering, and maintenance information or any other grease questions, please refer to the Conversion page of
this website.
Vegetable oil
conversions just modify the car's existing fuel and coolant
systems. The coolant serves as a circulating heater for
the vegetable oil system.
If you would like to
communicate with a group of greasers other than myself, please
visit the Grease Forum. It has all sorts of vegetable oil
information as well as some how-to links for Mercedes W123.
Feel free to post any questions you may have! If you want
to e-mail me, please see my profile on the Grease Forum.
Andrew- Administrator- cavaliers16
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