With Super Tuesday fast approaching, it would be good to know:

• Which candidate would do the most to reduce our dependence on petroleum for fuel (domestic or foreign)?
• Which candidate would do the most to promote alternative energy and conservation?
• Which would do the most to reduce our production of greenhouse gasses?

I have invited all four remaining candidates (McCain, Romney, Obama and Clinton) to be interviewed here on vegcar.net. What questions would you like to ask them. I’ll let you know when I hear back from them. 

Here is a video from our first conversion back in June of 2006. It was a single-tank conversion of a 1985 300SD. We did the conversion in the workshop of our friend Berry who passed away last year. We miss him dearly.

We documented this conversion here so you can follow the process step-by-step.

Is there a difference between 300D’s and 300SD’s in how they handle wvo?

I love the 300D. Aesthetically, I think it is the better looking of the 300 series cars. That, of course, is completely subjective. I also love the way my 300D handles wvo. My 1984 300D has performed remarkably well for the two-and-a-half years I have owned it. It is a has  a single-tank conversion using the Davco 234 heater/filter. Here in the Sierra foothills, the temperature gets down into the 20’s and 30’s and occasionally dips to the teens. I occasionally mix in about 20% diesel in the winter but run almost exclusively on wvo. The wvo my friends and I purchased from Sphere Energy was filtered down to 5 microns but does get creamy in the winter. On the coldest days, when I have 100% wvo in the tank, I do experience bogging, especially going up long hills. But on days like today, when the weather is in the high 30’s, my car started right up and didn’t bog at all.

Two of my friends, let’s call them Josh and Barry, have ‘84 and ‘85 300SD’s that have had bogging problems especially in winter. We are using the same wvo from Sphere. Even mixed with some diesel, they have more severe bogging problems than I do. So my question is this:

Are 300D’s better suited to running on wvo than 300SD’s?

I don’t know what the differences are in the engines. Maybe my sample size is too small and this simply reflects the characteristics of these particular cars. I would love to hear from y’all…

We had a technical glitch that prevented users of Internet Explorer from seeing the blog correctly. We apologize for this problem. So once please visit the real welcome post to the new vegcar.net.

Welcome to the new format for vegcar.net. I migrated the blog to a new platform (Wordpress) which is really impressive. I hope that this will make the information contained within more easily accessible.

The blog is also going to become a collaborative project. If you have something to say about your experience using veg oil as fuel, or if you just want to share some information you came across, you can do so on vegcar.net. Whether you have an idea for a single post or regular contributions, you are welcome to become part of the team. To become a contributor, fill out the following form.

–DanR

Well winter is here and my filtered wvo is pretty creamy. I filled up yesterday and the oil was coming out of the hose pretty slowly. I have had no problems starting up. I am using the glow-three-times winter strategy that a mechanic taught me. I turn the key so the preglow light goes on, then off. I turn off the key and do it again. Then I do it one more time before starting the engine. It has worked like a charm even on a 20-something degree morning last week.

Happy New Year to all! Thanks for reading my blog. I have really enjoyed writing this blog for the past couple of years, thanks mainly to all of you who read it!

I have some ideas that I hope will make the blog more informative. One involves opening it up to multiple contributors – all of you! I am looking at different software solutions that accommodate a collaborative or group blog. If you have any expertise in this area, please let me know. In the mean time, if you would like to submit any posts, email them to me and I will post them on the site. Your post can be about your vegcar, your desire for a vegcar, or some other aspect of alternative fueled vehicles.

May 2008 be a year of Peace and Happiness for all beings!