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Big Red Van: Conversion project diary

Sunday, September 12, 2004

The basic van

The basic van is a Mazda E2200, a 5m-long diesel panel van in fetching red. It's about ten years old and has 130,000 miles on the clock, the engine seems to run sweetly and there is hardly any rust. Ideal for a project like this.

As it's a diesel, I'll be considering running on various biofuels: biodiesel if I can find a supplier; vegetable oil / diesel blend if I can't; and pure vegetable oil if I can afford and handle the conversion.

For the moment, it's got to get a new timing belt (just a safety thing on old diesels, that) and have the speedo checked out.

1 Comments:

Gary Armstrong said...

I read with interest your comments about blending veg oil with derv. You do realise that is just as ilegal as red diesel although a lot greener. I make V100 biofuel. I live in Manchester call me any time for some legal biofuel on 07979 080794
Thanks Gary

7:08 PM  

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