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Drunk at a bar Before headin to a wedding With the bro

Wow best looking 2+2 ever. Gonna run a front air dam?

As I said the trooper is a turbo diesel. 35-40 mpg. The non turbo isuzus get 50-55 mpg

Ebay, some nice ones pop up for about $2500. Worth a plane ticket and a road trip for the right one.

Yea there is a red ls1 Z with a smoothed firewall, looks nice.

Because this post isn't in the v8 forum

Just easier to find if you cant find an ld28. They are usually a 2.2 4 cylinder turbo and mate up to the izuzu pup/trooper 5 speeds.

Maybe go with a Holset if you are in a crunch for money.

About 600 for a nice ls28 is what I have seen on forums. Why not put in an izuzu turbo diesel motor? Might be a cool swap and you can sometimes find them real cheap in old refer units.

Post a new thread about it, this is about another persons tail light panel he is making, not Paulos.

I would assume it might cost you 1500 to get everything to start runnin SVO.

Pretty sure Garret lost his turbo too.

Old diesel rabbit! When VWs werent crap. Perhaps a nice mid 80s Izuzu trooper with the turbo diesel and 5 speed.

My tank heater was installed in the tank I bought, and the wires run out the top with some fittings and rubber seal rings. Maybe the best idea is cut out the whol rear area and drop the stock tank. Then run a small 5 gallon cell and a large 15 gallon cell. You have to run all new fuel lines anyways so it might not be that much harder. That way you could run you tank heater wires out the top with no worries.

Yes, the reason for the tank heater is two fold. To prevent gel ups in the winter, and mainly to raise the veggie oil to the right temp. At room temps, veggie is 14 times more viscous than diesel. By raising the temp to approx. 170 degree it becomes the same viscosity as diesel. Biodiesel reactions do the same thing, reduce the viscoity of oil by stripping it of the glyceride molecues in veggie oil. This guy sells kits and could help you piece one together. http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com or http://www.fryerpower.com

Many states have passed laws exempting biodiesel homebrewers from paying taxes on the fuel. NC has such a law, good for me!

Ah yes you need to upgrade to synthetic fuel lines. And i forgot, you do have to have a tank heater for the VO. YOu can switch the the veggie tank until the veggie oil reaches 170 degrees or so. Also Dr. Hunt there are a few studies that show mixing diesel with veggie oil is a bad idea, and if you do, they say never mix more than 20% veggie oil whith diesel.

Ok. Well the best way to filter the oil is to heat it up, and then pump it to a filter housing. To heat the oil, you can simply buy a drum band heater, and wrap it around a 55 gallon drum. Let the oil heat to 90-100 degrees or so. To filter it, simply buy some filter bags from ebay, might cost your $20 for 15 assorted sizes. To make a cheap filter housing, take a 6 or 8 inch piece of PVC pipem and cut it to 5 or 6 feet. Attach the filter bags to the bottom of the pipe with two hose clamps or so. Pump the oil into the pipe and let it gravity fall through the filter bag. Repeat this with a 50 micron bag, then a 25, and then a 10. Or you could buy a real filter bag housing for about $500 and filter 100 gallons in a minute or so.

Yea he was on here selling those one piece panels and other parts. The problem with a one peice panel is they never fit just right. These cars are over 30 years old and many have been in accidents tweaking the body. Also Paula was shipping out parts that didn't fit and very very slow with his responses and refunds. I think some people even lost money, thats why his thread locked.

No not really. By filtering, the wvo needs to be filtered down to 10 microns to remove foreign debris in the oil.

That should work fine. Just check your engine oil more often to make sure it doesnt get clouded up. Sometimes the veggie oil slips past the rings and gets into the motor oil, but seems to be a rare phenomenon. The guy that wrote From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank, had the 240z with the LD28 turbo set up, cool car. Anyways I would go the dual tank set up too. Biodiesel produces glycerin and waste water you need to get rid of properly. Plus you have the cost of methanol and your catalyst of choice.

No! Sorry bro that website is very very off! Alot of errors on that site. Many biodiesel boards shoot that site down. Do yourself a favor and read the two books I posted. They will really help you and answer all your questions.

If you can get it for free, thats great. I have to pay for it. Anyways, I would suggest building some type of collection device for the cooks to pour the oil into. A 55 gallon drum works great, just get an open top and hinge the lid so they can open it and pour the oil in. Now there are two ways to use wasta veggie oil (wvo) as fuel. You can convert the wvo to biodiesel, or convert the vehicle to run off veggie oil. To make the wvo into biodiesel, you need to filter the oil down to 10 microns at least, dewater the oil, heat it up and add chemicals to create the reaction, let reaction sit then drain glycerin. Then you must take this new fresh biodiesel and wash and then dry it. To run veggie oil without converting the oil, you need a duel tank set up. Filter the oil again down to 10 microns and dewater it. Pour this oil into your veggie oil tank. Start the engine on diesel, let it get to operating temp, throw the switch to the other tank and then you will be runnin on veggie oil. A few miles before your destination switch back to diesel and let it clear the lines. Basically Biodiesel - No modification needed to any diesel engine, you are modifying the veggie oil Straight veggie oil - no modifying the oil, no chemicals, just need to install dual tank set up Anyone looking to get into biodiesel I recommend these two books: From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank - by Josh Tickell Biodiesel Basics and Beyond - by William H. Kemp