Thursday, April 20, 2006

Experiences from the first weekend on WVO:

Saturday was rainy and in the thirties, it took at least 15 minutes to get the temp in the heated fuel filter to show above the scrolling low.. to in the 70's. But once it has run, and then sits for a while the temp goes up quite a bit. We'll now have the temp sender tee'd into the hose that comes out of the Vegtherm Mega and goes into the injectors. That way we'll know for sure when a good time to switch over is.

Once the engine is warm though, even if you let it sit for 1 or 2 hours, it can be pretty much instantly be switched over to Veg. So Sunday I insulated the hoses, the coolant hoses and fuel hoses. Then put some cardboard before the heated filter, to reduce the air blowing onto it. I think this added an immediate improvement. Also got some insulation for the tank itself

I would like to do audio tests to see how the exhaust sounds differently from Veg to Diesel, there seems to be a more gurgly sound to the Veg. It runs just as smooth and seems to have no effect on power. We'll have to check mileage as well at some point.

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