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    Broke 200 on vegetable oil

    Had a great week at Bonneville!! Saw old friends, met new ones. Highly recommend all of you make an effort to check it out next year. Need more diesel heads!! Our journey ended rather abruptly on Wednesday afternoon when a course worker came driving up asking "is this yours?", with a WRIST PIN...
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    Building a dyno

    Howdy everybody! Just wanted to share the website for the team of senior design students we worked with over the last 6 months. They made us an engine dyno that is supposed to hold up to 2000hp (has yet to be tested due to some important "lessons learned" about drawing revisions...). Dave can...
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    New piping for 12 valve

    Howdy all. With a little time on the hands since Bonneville got cancelled, figured I could post some shots of what we've been working on. This year, the plan was to take two engine (12V and CR). 12V for veg only and CR for petro and bio-diesel only. The "passenger side" of the turbo system...
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    Bolt-on fuel sump

    Howdy all. Just curious what/if any thoughts are on fuels sumps? Seems to me that it would be easier to suck something (debris, etc) into the fuel line than having a big draw straw or something? I did a quick search but didn't see anything. If this topic has been hashed out, please direct to...
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    Data from our low power run

    Hey all. We are all about open source, so we are sharing some data from the dyno yesterday. If you've ever wondered how fast your turbos spin at boost, look under the "turbo rpm" column (and keep in mind that this was with a bad ECM and only put down 951HP, with the good ECM, we couldn't keep...
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    Individual exhaust temps

    Hi all, I asked this a while ago, but the thread seems to be too old to comment on. I never got around to posting the data we collected, so here goes. To recap, as you can see in the data, there is a large difference in cylinder temps. Pulled the pump off this winter and got it on the flow...
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    New vegetable oil powered vehicle landspeed record

    Hello all. We are a student group from Boise State University call Greenspeed. We just got back from the El Mirage Dry Lakebed in California with a record under out belt. Our vehicle is a 1998 Chevy S-10 with a 1993 block/head 5.9L Cummins. Part of our purpose is to raise awareness about...
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