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

Question

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

Answer 1

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%

Try

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?...

or

http://www.biodiesel.org/

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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 www.veggievan.org  another site is  www.greasecar.com 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.

Answer 5

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.