Elsbett Conversion Technology - Cars and Vans






Vehicle Suitability

Almost all Diesel powered cars and vans can be converted to run on vegetable oil, regardless of what type of injection system, including pre-chamber diesels, direct-injection (TDI), unit-injector (PDI), and common-rail (CDI, HDI, etc).

However, some engines are unsuitable due to the limitations of their distribution-injection pump, particularly on traditional direct-injection engines. So distribution-injection systems including injection pumps made by CAV, Lucas, Stanadyne, RotoDiesel or Delphi are not suitable for use with Elsbett conversion technology.

Converting Cars With The Elsbett 1-Tank System

With this system, there is no additional tank; all the fuel is held in the original tank of the vehicle. This solution relies on adapting the injection process to suit the injection characteristics of vegetable oil.  Typically the glow-plugs, injectors, and injector mounts are modified.

With this system, you can drive entirely without diesel, except in the coldest winter months, when a certain amount of winter diesel should be added to the vegetable oil in the tank to keep it flowing freely.

As with the 2-tank system, you can still run on straight diesel, or any mix of diesel and vegetable oil.

The Elsbett 1-tank system can be fitted on pre-chamber diesels of most makes and TDI engines from the Volkswagen group (AUDI, SEAT, Skoda, Volkswagen and some Ford and VOLVO as well as 1.9 dTi motors from Renault).

A typical 1-tank conversion kit would contain the following parts (subject to change):

single tank PPO pure plant oil veg oil conversion kit for diesel engine


The Two Tank System

While a one tank conversion is always preferable the technology has not been developed for every type of engine.  Vehicles for which this technology has not been developed can be modified using Elsbetts' pioneering two tank system. The elsbett two tank system automatically switches to PPO with out the need of an onboard computer.

The 2-tank system has a separate diesel tank to start and warm up the engine. Once the engine is warm, it switches over, automatically or manually, to vegetable oil from the main tank of the vehicle for the main part of the journey. Before long stops where the engine would cool down, the driver switches back to diesel for the last few miles of the journey. This flushes the vegetable oil out of the injection system ready for the next cold-start.

The Elsbett system uses a twin pumped system so that the fuel is always pumped to the engines fuel pump - massively reducing fuel pump wear. As a not for profit group we have choosen the elsbett twin tank system as it has been road tested on tens of thousands of vehicles and utilisies a twin pump system rather than a solonoid or blending system which reduces fuel pump wear.

The auxiliary tank for a car typically has a capacity of 20-30 litres although bigger tanks are available.

We can supply a range of tanks and offer stainless steal tanks that can be fitted in the spare wheel well.

 

The typical 2-tank conversion kit for a car would contain the following parts (subject to change):

twin tank visual control module

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