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Originally Posted by hoborobot69
but will somone name the flaw of love craft? or is it just that they are making a hack of money on the idea of wvo? its an attractive idea but its not worth it unless its done by you.
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I've read agriculture studies where they looked at the long and short term aspects of using unheated veg oil in diesel engines (in theire case, tractors). The conclusion was that it didn't do harm in the short term and small doses, but would cause measurable engine damage if used long term.
The folks that do the veg oil thing, and have done it long term without causing significant damage to their engines, swear by their two-tank systems that preheat the oil (and get the engine up to operating temp) prior to even trying to run the engine on it. They may not have the only system that is safe for the engine, but there's enough evidence to support the claims that their system is.
Lovecraft's systems are somewhere between these two systems. The question is.. are they close enough to the known-safe systems or not?