Six students Boise State University, Idaho, United States, breaking the speed record for vegetable oil-fueled cars, last week. As reported Jalponik and their official website, Greenspeed, Friday (11/18/2011), these students are using diesel pickup, Chevy S-10 made in 1998.
Note 250 miles per hour's carved at El Mirage Dry Lake, California, a flat, dry lake is used for speed racing event on land. Dave Schenker, as leader of the team, who are also students Boise and the owner of the car, claiming original idea inspired by Rudolph Diesel (diesel engine creator), which creates fuel for farm equipment that can be produced from the farm itself.
Dave, who are already familiar with diesel engines, then modified innards Chevy S-10, but did not explain it in detail. "I set my old pickup diesel engine in it, pair the machine-made 5.9-liter Cummins inline six-cylinder powered 700 HP. Then, reset the device turbo, cylinder head straightening, and conduct large-scale modifications in the fuel system work," he explained.
Dave and his friends then use a mixture of cottonseed oil and sunflower oil as a fuel. Two types of oil in the country is cooking oil.
After this achievement, their expectations are rising next level, breaking the speed record for diesel engines, which is 315 km per hour (class pickup).
Great, they choose the level of the Southern California Timing Association for the class "Diesel Truck" in this record breaking attempt. For the record, in that level, the vehicle body panels must be original factory default and there should be no additional body that supports the aerodynamic factors.
