...notice less stickies?

[joe603]

Check out the new G35 index thread, courtisy of one of our site mods, Noah.

We will be adding content as we get it...I have a bunch of how-to's that I need to post up for you guys. As always, if you have a write-up on installing a modification to your G's, post 'em up! I'll hook you guys up with custom titles for your trouble.

zerothread/299288

[G_whizz]

Yes... +1 for Noah!

Looks alot neater... now if we can just get the noobs to search just once before posing a question that has been asked like 1000000 times!!

[SVTCOBRA]

G, BTW, does the tornado work? Should I use synthetic oil or vinegar in my engine? Is a K&N better than a pop charger? Should I buy the extended warranty for $30,000?

[joe603]

lol...you ford guys and your humor...hehehe

[zozoka1212]

Yeah their humor is as old as their car. 100+

zozo

[G_whizz]

G, BTW, does the tornado work? Should I use synthetic oil or vinegar in my engine? Is a K&N better than a pop charger? Should I buy the extended warranty for $30,000?

Yes the Tornado is awesome... you should buy 2... one for your and the other for hers

I heard Vinager is more environmentally friendly... try it and let me know how it works out... I also heard that Red Wine vinagar is great as well... doesn't break down as much.

$30k warranty.... noooo... get the premium for an extra 6k. That includes lighter replacement and installation!

[zozoka1212]

Hey G don't pick on my drinking partner he can't help. He is ford-aholic.



zozo

[joe603]

Hey G don't pick on my drinking partner he can't help. He is ford-aholic.



zozo

I'd drink too if I owned a ford...lol!

Sorry, couldn't help it, you set him up

[SVTCOBRA]

Owning Ford's is why I know how to work on cars!!!

[joe603]

I love ford guys...they all have a good sense of humor!

[champagneG35]

Speaking of Vinegar. Did you know you can run a diesel on used cooking oil and get almost as good of gas mileage as the gold you buy at the pump ?? Or add a bottle of mineral spirits to the tank of cooking oil and get better mileage and better performance!!

No seriously I heard about that last night from a friend of mine that saw it on myth busters and then again on top gear. I was saying to myself

Why the heck don't more people with diesels drive by resturaunts and ask them for their used oil strain the particles out and enjoy next to free gas.

[smockers83]

The $30,000 warranty also covers blinker fluid as part of its extension, similar to the free BMW oil changes for however many miles.

The first diesel engine was originally ran on a vegetable oil fuel. The reason a lot of people don't do it is because the kits that transform the cooking oil into usable fuel cost thousands of dollars. And when you drive, the exhaust smells like what the oil was use to cook, so that may be fries, fish, beef. Thinking about it, McDonalds and the BK lounge should pay people to use their oil because it'll make people smell their food and go to their restaurants. Anybody want to start a business? We could turn fuel into an investment (get it from McD and BK and they give us top dollar say $100 per 35 gal drum since it would be advertisement, give it away plus $20/drum so that those using it can recuperate their costs for the kits...that's $80/drum in profit. Person has to fill up the truck like every 1.5 weeks that's almost $3000 from one person and who wouldn't want to be paid to use fuel since we've been the ones paying to use it for eons and the person would recuperate costs for a $1000 kit in under 1.5 years).

Modified by smockers83 at 2:58 AM 12/15/2007
Modified by smockers83 at 3:00 AM 12/15/2007

[Beancooker]

As far as the used fryer oil, it doesn't work that well, unless it is treated properly. It's called biodiesel. You take the fryer oil, add sulfur, and run it through a type of "distillery". Biodiesel has it's pro's and cons. It is cheaper, and doesn't pollute as much as regular diesel. Con's are that at temps less then 40ºF, it will start to gel. One other major problem is that it can grow bacteria. This is one of the biggest problems that we faced with it. (We switched our fleet of delivery vans in 2004 and ran it for a year) When the bacteria grows, the major problems you have are; foaming of fuel, mostly in fuel filter, which leads to foam lock. Just like vapor lock, but you get low volumes of fuel in the combustion chamber, since it's all foam. Second is the fouling of injectors. If you get bacteria growth, you will foul the injectors. It takes a few tanks, but then all of a sudden, you're down an injector. Then two... and at $400. an injector, it doesn't take many times of this happening, before you switch back to diesel. Also, biodiesel is more of a solvent than diesel. Any build up of any deposits in your fuel system, will be cleaned out. This sounds all well and good, but now all that crap that has been stuck where ever, is now being burned in the engine, and run through the injectors, since most of it will be dissolved and pushed through the fuel filter. We tried to stay with the biodiesel, to have a good outlook on the environment for our company, but it was far too costly. Hopefully in the future, the technology will get better, and these issues will be better.

[champagneG35]

I was told and yeah I read about costly converters when I googled to see if it was total BS but in the episode my friend watched he said there was no conversion done to this vehicle what so ever. He said they drove it around on a tank (or X amount of gallons) of regular diesel. Then when the tank ran out, they simply strained the used cooking oil through a filter to keep out the particles into the tank and ran it off that just like the diesel with no expensive coverters.

This was supposedly on myth busters. I'll now have to try and find an online video of the episode or something and post a link to it in a different thread so this one doesn't get too hijacked.

My apologies Joe didn't know there were so many cooking oil enthusiasts

[Beancooker]

I added more links to some articles (courtesy of Joe) and will add some of the others when I have more time.