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Originally Posted by DLM48
(Post 326321)
good kits but expensive you forgot to say which car you have how old and mileage on the engine etc. as well as where you are located and what was the cost of your kit? A wee touch of petrol (up to !0%) in your SVO should get over your cold start problem or even run on a Diesel/SVO mix in the winter. If you look at my post on the Fiat filter this is internal not just an external blanket thing so will be much better/quicker at heating the SVO. Seems strange that none of the SVO people have found this Fiat fuel pre heater (SHHUUUUSH keep it quiet Volvo owners only). I would have thought that longer glow plugs were easy to source i cant believe these are Elsbett parts but std parts sourced from another vehicle the coolant pre heater is for sure available from many sources and actually the injection pump once warm is a very good heater for the SVO so i think the coolant pre heater is a fix for a non existent problem probably a good belt and braces thing though. That said Cold Starting is the BIG ISSUE as far as i can see.
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Car is a 940 TD, milage is claimed to be 129,000 ( no idea if thats real or not)
The Elspbett kit was about £700. I'm not sure how much the bits would be if bought seperatley. The only bits that are custom made are the heat exchanger and the electric heater (not sure about the injectors). All the rest is commercial-of-the-shelf, i.e glow plugs are Bosch.
I did try 90% SVO and 10% petrol one weekend as an experiment, and it didn't like it at all, simply wouldn't start and siphoning it out was horrible!.
Yes, I agree the cold starting is the major issue so far for me and I have been toying with the idea of putting a timer on the electric fuel heater so that it comes on before I get up in the mornings. I have quite a few different ideas I'd like to try out, depending upon how things work out, but I think I'll end up using a two tank setup, which will negate any cold starting issues.
Regards
TFB
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