Are You Ready For Diesel Yet?

calcerise did pass the time by typing:

I'd rather use Mr. Turbine. It can burn anthing short of sodapop and sounds real cool

whrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee screech! vroom vroom beep! ....WHoooooooooooooooooooosh!....

Diesel is high too, and it stinks.

Gasoline is down 7 cents/gallon from last night.

Another drawback to buying an 'optional' diesel is the option surcharge is expensive to the point that the payback is too long. Now, I don't claim to know the actual cost difference but I am sure it is much less than the "option" rate.

Another is fuel cost. 'Back in the day' diesel fuel was half the price of regular gasoline. Now it more expensive than premium.

Chrysler did have a turbine back in the early 60s but since the engine was made in Italy the American public never bought into it also Congress had something to do with squashing it.

Most places diesel is higher, the only way to get a cheaper price is to use home heating fuel, which is illegal (only if you get caught) A lot of the farmers use their farm fuel in their trucks here which is a lot cheaper too.

Wrongasaurus....as usual. The BODIES of the Chrysler Turbine (loaner test) cars were made in Italy...as were Dual-Ghias and most of the Chrysler professional car (limo, hearse, etc.) line. The engines were made in Warren, Michigan by the same people who now make Cruise Missile engines at Walled Lake, MI.

Home heating oil MAY OR MAY NOT meet diesel specs for sulfur, contaminants and cetane. I would never burn it in a common rail engine but in a Bosch pump engine I might-if the delta in fuel prices would pay for a rebuilt pump and injectors in a reasonable amount of time. And I would certainly install a better than stock fuel filter and a gascolator at the low point in the system.

Certain diesels will burn an amazing number of odd and foul oils if they are free of water and particulates. You cannot filter water-you must separate it via gravity. There are dyes that dye water but not oil (or vice versa) and you can put your fuel in a tank, the dye, and more water, then agitate and let sit and drain either all the colored fluid or all the clear.

From the site listed:

piston engine and an automatic transmission. To start it, place the transmission shift lever in the "Idle" location and push down to engage the "Park/Start" position. Turn the ignition key to the right and release it. Starting is automatic. Within a few seconds, the inlet temperature and tachometer gauges on the instrument panel will read about 1700 F and 18, 000 rpm, respectively, indicating that the engine is started.

The present performance and economy of the Turbine are comparable to a conventional car with a standard V-8 engine. The engine will operate satisfactorily on diesel fuel, kerosene, unleaded gasoline, JP-4 (jet fuel), and mixtures thereof. And, even more interesting, it is possible to change from one of these fuels to another without any changes or adjustments to the engine. The users of the cars also will appreciate the many other advantages of the turbine engine.

The cars were built at Chrysler Corporation's Engineering Research Laboratories in Detroit. At the assembly area, the Chrysler-designed car bodies, which are built by Ghia of Italy, were lowered onto the new engines and chassis components. The turbine engines were built and tested at Chrysler's Research Laboratories.

But you'd use less since light truck diesels generally yet better fuel mileage...

Walled Lake sucks.

Diesel here in New Zealand is $0:92 L which is cheap compared to paying the $ 1:33 L for regular 91 . but for diesels you have to pay a roaduser tax of $115 per 1000 km so it doesnt make any difference.

Neil in NZ ' 94 Cherokee

I bet a lot of people fool with their odometers.

calcerise did pass the time by typing:

speedometer gear. :) After all it was stock before those 33's right, eh?

what are you? A sales rep? I'm ready to switch my truck to burn used cooking oil from Burger King. Almost free fuel and the exhaust smells like french fries.

Chip

SVO, or are you making it into biodiesel? There's a big difference, you know.

But since i get 50 MPG in my Jetta, it doesn't matter. I ran it on 10 gallons of free (expired date) peanut oil last month. I would stil rather have "Mr. Fusion"