cost of fuel....

[phillpot]

After all the excitement a few weeks ago when petrol actually dropped below £1 a litre at a couple of garages in Birmingham it seems to have quietly crept back up 10p or so!

Diesel engines have, as I understand it, injectors? My car has a fuel injected engine so could I run on diesel? I'm thinking maybe a 50/50 mix, best of both Worlds, diesel economy and petrol performance?

[Griff Tuscan]

Sounds like an interesting idea. Wish we'd considered this before we went ahead with the engine conversion from V8 to Hybrid.

[Griffithy]

phillpot said:

My car has a fuel injected engine so could I run on diesel?

Exactly, that means you have a bi-fuel engine and you could fill up Diesel only as well. I do it all the time as I get it cheaply from a farm nearby.
Be prepared that engine will sound a bit different.

[carsy]

No problem at all, as long as you get the mix right. 70/30 is the best mix and unbeknown by many will give a 10% torque increase. We all know diesels produce a torquey engine.

Best of both worlds more power and more mpg. Winner winner.

[Diablos-666]

Sounds like a pretty good idea, let us know how you get on OP...

[steviejasp]

I tried this last year with the Cerb. I used 50:50 petrol/diesel. I did about 5000 miles and reckon I saved nearly £300.00 in fuel savings. I was able to put these savings towards the £4000 engine rebuild that followed.
I was happy to be quids in for a change!

[andy43]

As above - definitely don't go above 70% diesel as it really starts to smoke badly on acceleration.
It may sound noisier when running on part diesel, but that's normal, they all do that.
You can mix a bit of soapy water in with it as well, to help with emissions - just 1 part water/fairy liquid to 20 parts fuel mix will do it. Keeps the back of the car cleaner as well.

[SteveSPG]

i read a 30% mix of petrol and bullst was just about perfect.....

[V8 GRF]

steviejasp said:

I tried this last year with the Cerb. I used 50:50 petrol/diesel. I did about 5000 miles and reckon I saved nearly £300.00 in fuel savings. I was able to put these savings towards the £4000 engine rebuild that followed.
I was happy to be quids in for a change!

[roseytvr]

carsy said:

No problem at all, as long as you get the mix right. 70/30 is the best mix and unbeknown by many will give a 10% torque increase. We all know diesels produce a torquey engine.

Best of both worlds more power and more mpg. Winner winner.

Just tried this but not had chance to use it properly - car started smoking, made a strange noise and cut out before I could really floor it to see if it made any difference. AA on the way - probably the 100a fuse but I cant get under the car in my suit. Will feed back later after the AA get me running again.
Thanks
Ian

[bomb]

V8 GRF said:

steviejasp said:

I tried this last year with the Cerb. I used 50:50 petrol/diesel. I did about 5000 miles and reckon I saved nearly £300.00 in fuel savings. I was able to put these savings towards the £4000 engine rebuild that followed.
I was happy to be quids in for a change!

You Sir, are a genius.

[Toltec]

Just drop in the engine from one of these and you are sorted.

http://www.russianmilitary.co.uk/answers.php?id=16

Start a business dealing with the result of people putting the wrong fuel in their car and you are laughing.

[aide]

I put rapeseed oil in mine, although James Martin swears by butter
I jest, but surely this thread isn't seriously suggesting it's ok to put diesel in a finely tuned petrol engine? Aren't there detergents in diesel that can harm a petrol engine?

[aide]

Or is it detergents in diesel engine oil that's not good for petrol engines?

[Diablos-666]

April fools is over now

[N8CYL]

Oh for crying out loud...I was reading this thinking the world had gone mad. I was going to google diesel and petrol mix. Jeez I feel done over.

[aide]

Had me going for a while! Fookers