I recently met a fellow Chef at the farmers market who has, like me, been using his restaurants waste oil to run his 80's Mercedes wagon, via a lovecraft conversion. He was telling me about his newly converted (06 or 07?) M-class cdi, I dont know much about this car but it looks like a mini-van to me. I was hopped up on coffee and had been cruising the Mercedes shop forums a lot, and i hit him with all my anti lovecraft arsenal (i also have a 84 300d/lovecraft conv). I told him how balsey it was to put that conversion on a $50,000 auto, and I speculated about how his injectors would coke and when he started the car on the cold veg-oil, unburned oil would seep down the cylinder walls and infiltrate the engine oil. Blah Blah Blah You guys all know what im talking about, you taught it to me.... He dosent even pretend to know much about cars and just said " it runs great!" and " diesels were designed to run on veg oil" .

Anyway, today he runs up to me at the Market and says "you were right!" i guess he was having a problem with his turbo and when he took the car to Mercedes of Beverly Hills, the crank case was a couple quarts over filled. His engine oil was full of veg oil, it was gummed up and the turbo was shot! These cars aren't sold new in Cali. so the dealer dosent really have that much experience with them, but they were speculating it would need a new engine!

This all happened in a couple of months... He told me that he tried to contact Lovecraft and they wont return his calls.

This may be lost on members of this forum who are very MB savvy, but if you live in L.A. and dont know much about cars it is hard to know what crooks lovecraft are. They present themselves as people who are selling a valid, tested system. I really feel bad for this guy!

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1984 300D Water-Alcohol Injection System, Pyrometer & Boost Gauge running B100 (soon to be homebrewed!!!)