Well... been looking at some of my options for an alternative fuel vehicle. The bio-diesels caught my attention long ago, but I do not have much experience with diesels having only rebuilt one single diesel from a 80's F250 in the past. I've never owned a diesel engine. Worked on them, yes.
Another possibility my friend(who took a alt. fuel class) suggested is "flex-fuel." They are basically gasoline engines converted to run E85 or mixture of distilled alcohol with or with out gasoline mixed in. Only thing is though, E85 costs more than regular pump gas right now. To brew your own fuel, you must learn to make high potency moonshine, then learn to distill it to at least 180 proof. yet another issue is that once you tune your fuel and ignition to run alcohol, it will run like crap on pump gas. Unless you have a fuel/ignition control that can either sense what fuel you are using (from O2 readings etc.) or a "switch" of some sort with settings for the different fuels. Sounds a bit more complicated than bio-diesel.
Flex-Fuel wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible-fuel_vehicle
Bio-Diesel wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-diesel
What do you guys think? Maybe even a flex-fueled SV650.
Another possibility my friend(who took a alt. fuel class) suggested is "flex-fuel." They are basically gasoline engines converted to run E85 or mixture of distilled alcohol with or with out gasoline mixed in. Only thing is though, E85 costs more than regular pump gas right now. To brew your own fuel, you must learn to make high potency moonshine, then learn to distill it to at least 180 proof. yet another issue is that once you tune your fuel and ignition to run alcohol, it will run like crap on pump gas. Unless you have a fuel/ignition control that can either sense what fuel you are using (from O2 readings etc.) or a "switch" of some sort with settings for the different fuels. Sounds a bit more complicated than bio-diesel.
Flex-Fuel wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible-fuel_vehicle
Bio-Diesel wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-diesel
What do you guys think? Maybe even a flex-fueled SV650.