How does the Veggie Voyager run on vegetable oil?
The Veggie Voyager uses ‘SVO’ (straight vegetable oil) – more specifically, ‘WVO’ (waste vegetable oil), recycled from restaurants, and then cleaned, by filtering out the food particles. No other processing is required. Theoretically, I can go to a restaurant, pick up their waste oil, run it through a few filters, and then pour it right into my veggie oil tank. I actually have two tanks. The first tank is the one that came with the van. In that tank, I can put regular diesel fuel, or bio-diesel. My secon, and wh tank is more interesting. I put clean, recycled veggie oil into it. Coiled at the bottom of this tank, like a snake, is a copper coil filled with engine coolant (just like radiator fluid). That’s the stuff that swirls around the engine keeping it cool, by drawing away the heat and dispersing it. I start up my engine on regular diesel fuel, or bio-diesel. I drive for about 10 or 15 minutes. During this time, the engine is heating up, the engine coolant is heating up, and that co
