After having read the Idaho University
Idaho Wvo Study about the problems of the use of straight SVO/WVO i've developed some doubts about my initial desire to use SVO. Yet I don't really want to run biodiesel either because of the cost and hassle of extra processing steps if I can help it.
Is there anyone familiar with the studies and able to offer some kind of counterpoint? I've heard people say that the problems come from running cold SVO in cold engines, yet I doubt all those studies indicating 1000+ hrs of use in farm fields and stuff ran an engine that never hit operating temperature unless it was ultra short use cycles of a few minutes.
I'm curious whether certain things could mitigate the problems - water injection to clean carbon (i've been told it tends to 'steam clean' chambers), more often oil changes to deal with the "polluting of lubrication" issue (along with oil testing, trying to track exactly what really occurs, and possibly something else to counter it), or finding out what kind of 'degumming additive' made the one test on an indirect injection engine seem to work with no problems even after 2000 hours.