Wow, that sounds really interesting.  I've heard of Bio-Diesel fuels
being used with Diesel vanagons in the SF bay area where there is,
allegedly, a fill station.

I would think the fuel combustion temps would be too low in our gas
engines to run efficiently.  I suspect that there might be some majorly
negative effects to the catalytic converter too.

How about a hybrid conversion?

Wade

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Greg Stelz
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:36 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Vanagon alternative fuel

Hi folks,

In light of recent discussion, I was considering a
conversion that could allow my van to run on vegetable
oil.  Because technically, fossil fuels are animal
by-products in part.  I have a friend who tried this
and he said corn oil is inferior to oil obtained
brussel sprouts.  He typically saved some of this high
octane oil for those long mointain passes in Colorado. Coincedentally it
is best to run these lean burning engines at about 4200-4800 rpm's in
3rd gear for maximum output and to prevent lugging :)

Sorry, couldn't resist!
Greg Stelz
86 GL (westy conversion)
Columbus, OH

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