How would does it cost to convert your car to run on vegetable oil (SVO)?

How much would it cost to convert a 1990 -1998 Volkswagon Jetta or Passat to run on Vegetable Oil? Any Ideas?





Anyone out there ever get your car converted to run on SVO?


What Company converted your car?


How well is your life going with a Veg Oil car in your driveway?
How would does it cost to convert your car to run on vegetable oil (SVO)?
Cars do NOT run on veggie oil. Cars run on Bio Diesel - that is created from Veggie oil.





Bio Diesel run on ANY DIESEL car - no conversion necessary. That is the attraction of bio-diesel.





BUT ..... You can not get bio-diesel at any gas station. It has to be created in you garage from used french fry oil. So you have to ready to run around town collecting used cooking oil and get dirty converting it.








Good Luck...
How would does it cost to convert your car to run on vegetable oil (SVO)?
running Straight Veg oil is BAD for your injector pump! SVO has no lubrication properties!





The best thing is to make the biodiesel at home, there are Biodiesel converters that you can buy online, and they work well!





Biodiesel has BETTER lubricating properties than regular diesel so with that your engine will last longer than the usual 600,000.





Some Hippie kids from Vermont drove their converted school bus over here (Oregon) on waste and had to replace their injector pump ($1200 used). They were talking about converting to Biodiesel on-board.





Seen my biodiesel scooter yet?


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Reply:I would like to address Flashman's answer . . . You can use actual vegetable oil, of any kind, right off the shelf, to run a properly converted diesel engine. Of course, the best/cheapest way to get veggie oil is used, from restaurants. There are several successful and trusted companies selling conversion kits and providing tons of information. To run SVO it has to be heated to allow it to flow and act more like regular petrol. Most kits being sold have a heat exchanger for this purpose. SVO must also be well-filtered from contaminants like food particles and water. Here are a couple websites you should check out for more info:





http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com/


http://www.vegiecars.com/converting/