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Yeah, there is no shortage of deep fat fry-oil for my grease burner.
The veg-oil is too thick at ambient temp to be injected properly, so the car is started/shut down on either petrodiesel or biodiesel from the stock tank. During the first 5 min or so, while the engine warms up, coolant starts to get hot, heating the in-tank heat exchanger I built. That warms up the oil enough to get it flowwing into the fuel line which is bundled in an insulated sheath with two coolant lines from the engine bay all the way under the car to the trunk. When the fuel line reaches the engine bay, it goes right into a thermostatically controlled glow plug heater, and directly from there into the racor filter, which has a heated bowl, again, thermostatically controlled. This heats up the fuel so that it is thin enough to be injected properly. Additional heat is provided via the return fuel, which is looped back to the fuel line just before the lift pump. (keep in mind, the lift pump is re-routed to just before the I.P. so that it pulls both fuels from both tanks depending on the solenoid position)
The coolant heat is probably all I really need here in GA, but I've got family in PA and Maine, and if I was not selling that car, I'd be expecting to drive it up there around holidays time. (dog doesnt like to fly...)
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Kevin
Oh, the peanut oil most folks use (once) for their turkey frying will work great!
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