How It Works

August, 2007

THE VEGGIE-OIL ENGINE EXPLAINEDA veggie-oil vehicle begins with a diesel engine. In diesels, fuel is injected into the combustion chambers just as in gasoline engines. Highly compressed air is then injected. The heat of this compressed air (rather than the spark of a spark plug) ignites the fuel. To run a car on veggie oil, the most popular method is to use two fuel tanks: one with the veg, another with straight diesel (all provided in a cheap conver-sion kit, pictured). You start the car on reg...

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