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Pantelis Giamarellos
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Mark Hi,
I am running both my Discovery 200Tdi vehicles with a mixture of 10%
filtered olive oil we use for cooking french fries, aubergines and fish and
90% automotive diesel for more than a year and a half now.
When used at up to this ratio apart from the obvious economy in monetary
terms I also notice that the engine is running in a much smoother way (less
noisy also and noticeably better accelerarion)
Economy is also noticed on the miles per gallon figures and the strange
thing is that it is more that it should be when you consider the reduced
amount of diesel fuel and accomodate for the additional olive oil finding
its way into the fuel tank. This leads me to be believe that the lubricating
capabilities of the olive oil further decrease friction in the engine thus
resulting in further fuel economy.
I also notice some decrease in black smoke when accelerating (the 1993 model
year Disco is tweaked to 1.0 bar wastegate opening pressure, has a large
full frontal area Allard intercooler installed in 1996, a hybrid turbo from
Torque Developments Engineering bought back in 1996 (the were the first ones
to introduce a hybrid turbocharger for the 200Tdi) and a pretty much tweaked
fuel pump (I have now forgoten by how much)
Hope this helps.
Take care
Pantelis
"Mr.Nice." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I was talking to a guy today who runs his van on oil from these guys
> http://www.bio-power.co.uk
> I'm going to look into is as a possible fuel for my 1984 110 (2.5 n/a
> diesel).
> Is anyone here running an older landy on this kind of stuff?
> or anyone know anything about it?
>
>
> Regards.
> Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)
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> 1984 110 CSW 2.5(na)D
> (3,000 rivets flying in close formation)
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I am running both my Discovery 200Tdi vehicles with a mixture of 10%
filtered olive oil we use for cooking french fries, aubergines and fish and
90% automotive diesel for more than a year and a half now.
When used at up to this ratio apart from the obvious economy in monetary
terms I also notice that the engine is running in a much smoother way (less
noisy also and noticeably better accelerarion)
Economy is also noticed on the miles per gallon figures and the strange
thing is that it is more that it should be when you consider the reduced
amount of diesel fuel and accomodate for the additional olive oil finding
its way into the fuel tank. This leads me to be believe that the lubricating
capabilities of the olive oil further decrease friction in the engine thus
resulting in further fuel economy.
I also notice some decrease in black smoke when accelerating (the 1993 model
year Disco is tweaked to 1.0 bar wastegate opening pressure, has a large
full frontal area Allard intercooler installed in 1996, a hybrid turbo from
Torque Developments Engineering bought back in 1996 (the were the first ones
to introduce a hybrid turbocharger for the 200Tdi) and a pretty much tweaked
fuel pump (I have now forgoten by how much)
Hope this helps.
Take care
Pantelis
"Mr.Nice." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I was talking to a guy today who runs his van on oil from these guys
> http://www.bio-power.co.uk
> I'm going to look into is as a possible fuel for my 1984 110 (2.5 n/a
> diesel).
> Is anyone here running an older landy on this kind of stuff?
> or anyone know anything about it?
>
>
> Regards.
> Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)
> --
> _________________________________________
> www.markvarleyphoto.co.uk
> 1984 110 CSW 2.5(na)D
> (3,000 rivets flying in close formation)
> _________________________________________
>
>
>
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