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[Wingman]

Pictures of the computer screen too.  Love Geneva clientele!

[Harrison]

http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/4388601539.html

Is something like this gonna be a headache? Or should I stick with the Mercedes diesels

[mr.mindless]

Glad he cleaned it out for the pics.

I LOVE VW TDIs. Timing belts really matter. Egr clogs the intake and needs clean out when not looked after.


Tapatalking in traffic

[KingtheZJ]

no good for WMO burning

[mr.mindless]

when they get 50mpg, who cares?

also, they burn biodiesel just fine and also burn heated grease fine too.

[Harrison]

no good for WMO burning

Is this something you've looked into? I know nothing about them, is it mechanical injection? Figured WMO might be fine since people are running veg in them.

Is 50mpg a real life number?

I like that working on my Benz is basically like a baby Cummins.

[mr.mindless]

in the MkIII cars, hypermiling douches break 60-65mpg. Real life 48-52 no problem.

My MkIV weighed about 800# more and I drove it like I stole it and got 43 day in and day out on snow tires and General Grabber ATs. I broke 50 on a few highway tanks, that may have still been on stock rubber.

[KingtheZJ]

my cowoker has a tdi golf and runs bio diesel. gets 52 mpg driving Batavia to Roch every day

[Nick]

I am still yet to figure out why you guys care about milage when the fuel is free

[mr.mindless]

I know nothing about them, is it mechanical injection?

I wish this was a wiki so I could add the info that's missing to it, like engine designations and applicable models
https://www.tdiclub.com/TDIFAQ/TDiFAQ-2.html#a

US TDIs are 1.9s and 2.0s.

there were a few pre-turbo 1.6s in the 80s, they were IDI and about 60 horse. that's what Matt runs in the Sami if I'm recalling right. He knows the old motors well.

The 1.9 had a few generations. 1Z and ALH are what I remember and as I recall the 1Z runs in all the MkIII cars, ~94-98, VE rotary pump, wastegate turbo, and 90 horse stock. The ALH is in the early MkIVs through ~04. 90hp, VE, variable geometry turbo. prone to sticky vanes if babied all the time. both have EGR. both are computer controlled. Nozzle upgrades, turbo upgrades, computer programming are all options.

After the ALH there's two years of a "unit injector" motor, the PD. Pumpe Duße or something like that. Think Duramax.

Then common rail 2.0 motors. I know NOTHING about them. they're in MkV chassis cars that I also know nothing about.

[Harrison]

I am still yet to figure out why you guys care about milage when the fuel is free

Rendering companies pay $.50/gal around here for veg and usually have contracts that prohibit the producer from giving it to anyone else. Guy down the road from me used to get it from all the local restaurants. Now all of them but the one his wife works at cut him off once the renderers came around

I also don't have 3 barns and a yard hidden from neighbors where I can have 8 275gal totes of heating oil sitting around

[jaysenodell]

Business opp?


You guys are already doing it, so maybe make a side gig out of it... I'm sure there are EPA/DEC things to deal with, but open the model up to consumer sales and make some $$.

[mr.mindless]

and then you're trying to compete with a regional player already established around here, Buffalo Biodiesel.

It would be very tough to do without someone fulltime or super flexible to make daytime pickups as needed.

[rejeep]

its big business...

my buddy owns all the Burger Kings in Western NY and you should see the check he gets weekly from his cooking oil...

[jaysenodell]

I guess it's changed a lot from the days restraunts had to pay to dispose of used oil.


I shall now crawl back into the hole I've been living in and wait for the world to end.