Hybrid Honda Accords

[Jonathan Finger]

Well that's just it!  There's no need to retrofit anything - any diesel 
engine can run it - especially older ones.
Heck, you can dump canola oil in an old Merc. diesel and it'll run.  :)

Some of the brand new "common-rail" diesel engines though will be really 
finnicky about some of the bio fuels, and probably shouldn't run them 
(at least not the backyard bio fuels).

Now an old Merc diesel, I'd probably retrofit to be a grease-car - 
meaning it runs on recycled cooking oil.  That can be had for free, and 
the filtering equipment can be had for not that much.  Meaning you can 
have very cheap, clean burning, renewable fuel.  Unfortunately such 
fuels don't do too well in direct inject (the DI in TDI) diesel with 
30,000 psi at the injector nozzle.  You'd hate to have a little chunk of 
onion ring wind up in there and blow the whole thing up! :)

Jonathan Finger


David Ilvedson wrote:
> I think the bio-diesel is great.   A fair number of people around here run them...don't need new diesels...plenty of older Mercedes to retro-fitted.   
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> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA  94044
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