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Dave Milne wrote:
>
> Rover were the first to do this, more than 50 years ago. I've seen the car
> in their museum.
>
> http://www.rover.org.nz/pages/jet/jet5.htm
>
> Dave

 

LPG mileage is poorer than gasoline for two reasons: propane has much
lower heat content per gallon, and few LPG conversions are very
efficient. Straight propane engines set up right used to equal gasoline
because of improved efficiency, but with EFI and closed loop computer
control gasoline engines have gotten far more efficient and propane
installs-most of which use Vialle or Impco (can't get Vialle here-have
to have it sneaked in covertly) mixers and vaporizers which are 1940s
tech, have not.

But in the U.S. propane is more expensive than gasoline-plus which
many retailers will refuse to put it in a motor vehicle. On an RV this
is no problem, you just mark it as "appliance fuel", but in a pickup or
car you are screwed.

 

LPG mileage is poorer than gasoline for two reasons: propane has much
lower heat content per gallon, and few LPG conversions are very
efficient. Straight propane engines set up right used to equal gasoline
because of improved efficiency, but with EFI and closed loop computer
control gasoline engines have gotten far more efficient and propane
installs-most of which use Vialle or Impco (can't get Vialle here-have
to have it sneaked in covertly) mixers and vaporizers which are 1940s
tech, have not.

But in the U.S. propane is more expensive than gasoline-plus which
many retailers will refuse to put it in a motor vehicle. On an RV this
is no problem, you just mark it as "appliance fuel", but in a pickup or
car you are screwed.

 

LPG mileage is poorer than gasoline for two reasons: propane has much
lower heat content per gallon, and few LPG conversions are very
efficient. Straight propane engines set up right used to equal gasoline
because of improved efficiency, but with EFI and closed loop computer
control gasoline engines have gotten far more efficient and propane
installs-most of which use Vialle or Impco (can't get Vialle here-have
to have it sneaked in covertly) mixers and vaporizers which are 1940s
tech, have not.

But in the U.S. propane is more expensive than gasoline-plus which
many retailers will refuse to put it in a motor vehicle. On an RV this
is no problem, you just mark it as "appliance fuel", but in a pickup or
car you are screwed.

 

LPG mileage is poorer than gasoline for two reasons: propane has much
lower heat content per gallon, and few LPG conversions are very
efficient. Straight propane engines set up right used to equal gasoline
because of improved efficiency, but with EFI and closed loop computer
control gasoline engines have gotten far more efficient and propane
installs-most of which use Vialle or Impco (can't get Vialle here-have
to have it sneaked in covertly) mixers and vaporizers which are 1940s
tech, have not.

But in the U.S. propane is more expensive than gasoline-plus which
many retailers will refuse to put it in a motor vehicle. On an RV this
is no problem, you just mark it as "appliance fuel", but in a pickup or
car you are screwed.

 

Are you going to build it up diesel?

I am in Canada so the only diesel trucks I see stink so bad they must
bring up the end of the line or stay home. We have way too much sulfur
in all our fuels, especially that stuff.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Thre's nothing off topic about cutting fuel costs, and yes, I do (but
> it's in pieces now).

 

Are you going to build it up diesel?

I am in Canada so the only diesel trucks I see stink so bad they must
bring up the end of the line or stay home. We have way too much sulfur
in all our fuels, especially that stuff.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Thre's nothing off topic about cutting fuel costs, and yes, I do (but
> it's in pieces now).

 

Are you going to build it up diesel?

I am in Canada so the only diesel trucks I see stink so bad they must
bring up the end of the line or stay home. We have way too much sulfur
in all our fuels, especially that stuff.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Thre's nothing off topic about cutting fuel costs, and yes, I do (but
> it's in pieces now).

 

Are you going to build it up diesel?

I am in Canada so the only diesel trucks I see stink so bad they must
bring up the end of the line or stay home. We have way too much sulfur
in all our fuels, especially that stuff.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Thre's nothing off topic about cutting fuel costs, and yes, I do (but
> it's in pieces now).

 

> What I was fishing for is there must be something mixed with your
> peanut oil, if it's anything like the oil they fry fires in, just mixing
> it with diesel is not enough it's got to volatile:

Of course it is. I haven't run straight SVO, but know guys who do. It works.
The blend ran fine in my engine, no loss of power or mileage, and I go up
and down mountains every time I drive it.
.. Rudolph Diesel designed his early engines to run on straight peanut oil,
but it has nowhere near the energy yeild of diesel fuel. Diesel fuel was
named after him posthumosly.
here's a link to a good SVO site, but i don't burn enough in my car to want
to deal with all the grease and slime, I get enough of that working.
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_svo.html
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Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California