[TriLUG] OT: Anyone interested in seeing a vegetable oil poweredcar after Thursday's meeting?

[Turnpike Man]

awesome! I used to go to the Tarheel Regatta every summer as a kid... we're
talking 1978-1986 range or so... can't remember the years exactly.  What class
boat?  I preferred watching the Jersey Skiffs and the SS's (like bobby
commander drove i think)

--- Jim Wright <JWright at NetCentrics.com> wrote:

> On this subject...one of the best sites I've found for biofuels info is
> here:
> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
> They have a section on ethanol...as an aside, when I was a kid, my dad
> was friends with a guy who ran a alcohol powered speedboat out at the
> Tarheel Regatta...he won a lot of races.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian Weaver
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:20 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Anyone interested in seeing a vegetable oil
> poweredcar after Thursday's meeting?
> 
> 
> I don't know that "seeing" it would do me much good, but I would be
> interested in your general experienes.
> 
>  - Cost of conversion
>  - Time and cost of collection & filtering waste oil
>  - Milage comparisions (Gas/Diesl vs Veg Oil).
>  - Maintance issues (pre and post conversion).
> 
> I ask because eventually my 1996 195K Honda Civic is going to give up
> the ghost, or some stupid drive is going to finally hit me. Either way
> I'm going to have to get another car "eventually." Your converted Jetta
> sounds more environmentally friendly since it uses renewable resources
> like vegetable oil.
> 
> I wonder if I could convert my Civic to run on Grain Alochol? Nothing
> like stopping by the ABC store once a week to fill up ;-)
> 
> -Weave
> 
> Tobias Crawley [tcrawley at gmail.com] wrote on Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at
> 11:02:30AM -0500:
> > Steve,
> > 
> > I use waste vegetable oil from restaurants, which they give me for 
> > free. So my cost is my time to collect and fitler the oil.
> > 
> > Tobias
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:00:55 -0500, Steve Litt 
> > <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:51 am, Tobias Crawley wrote:
> > > > I know we are all tinkerers at heart, so I thought there might be 
> > > > some interest in this.
> > > >
> > > > I recently converted my Volkswagen Jetta TDI to run off of 
> > > > vegetable oil, and will have it with me Thursday night. I can 
> > > > demonstrate how the system works and answer any questions if 
> > > > anyone is interested.
> > > 
> > > Do you have a cheap source for vegetable oil?
> > > 
> > > SteveT
> > > 
> > > Steve Litt
> > > Founder and acting president: GoLUG
> > > http://www.golug.org
> > > --
> > --
> > Tobias O. Crawley / tcrawley at gmail.com
> > "Arrogance is quoting yourself." - Tobias O. Crawley
> > "Ignorance is quoting others." - Aaron T. Dixon
> > -- 
> 
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