veg oil kit - is it worth it?

[TJG]

Well rising diesel prices AGAIN have forced me to act,
Got 60 litre of veg oil at Costco this lunchtime £8.49 for 20 litre drum (42.45ppl). Have also sent off the EX103 form off.

Decided not to get a all-in-one VEG CONVERSION kit - due to cost, and vehicle has done 150k miles.

So going to fit an electric fuel line heater (ebaY) and a coolant heat exhanger and see how i get on with that setup, may put in a 2 tank system eventually.

- But I also want to convert the much lower mileage (50 k) Scooby to LPG, and that costs around 1200 - assuming i can get a grant still for that conversion.

I think you will find grant is only available on cars under 5 yrs and even then only for certain specified installs. It all stopped in March this year anyway, see http://www.boostlpg.com/ . Also LPG is just not cost viable on diesel cos you need a spark to make it go bang.

So 4 options really 1. Pay up 2.emigrate 3.get 500cc clone-mobile or 4. go veggy (maybe get sponsorship from the local chippy, as everyone knows once you smell chips you have just got go get some

[andycook]

our subaru is only 3 yrs old and petrol - so should be OK for LPG,

on another note, got a 20 l drum of 10w/40 Chevron deisel engine oil from COSTCO for £23 ish - 1/2 the price of buying engine oil e.g. Castrol Magnatec in those 4.5l cans.