April Fool ?

This morning my Jetta started smoothly at temperature - 3 degrees Centigrade without extra motor heating.
It seems that dilution to 30% ( biokomponent/normal diesel fuel ) is OK for reliable use of biofuelcar.
This is NOT fooling though it is 1st of April 2007 at 10.03 local time in Finland

First 1000 kilometres OK

Jetta has worked nice the first thousand biokilometres. Consumption of the mixture was 5,7 liters/100 kilometres
- a bit high due to running the motor idle.
Local time is 19.02

Summertime

Yesterday clocks were changed to summertime. So did the weather too - almost 15 degrees Centigrade. I trimmed the appletrees.
Now the local time is 08.25 ( Monday)

Yesterday the smoke value of Jetta diesel was measured:

The k-value rised instead of sinking 30% that was expected.
The man in the cabin is Mr. Rami Wahlsten, who is responsible for the measurements in Turku Polytechnics.

The reason for the unexpected behaviour is probably the temperetaure of the test car. We had to wait almost half an hour before starting the measurement.

Local time 22.40

Cold starting Jetta succeeded nice - temperature was +2 degrees Centigrade this morning. Expected smoke was lower after start and vanished almost totally after 5 minutes run. The happening is on videotape for more detailed information.
Local time is 7.54

I try to give the link to my homepage www.ekolaiho.fi/sivut/rypsi2.html another time.
Klick here and read in Finnish.

Today I started to use cold pressed canola oil as dieselfuel in my old Jetta. The reading was 602173 kms in the panel of the car.
You can follow the technical data of the test in my homepage here .
I added 20 litres of canola oil to tank and filled the tank to top by diesel fuel - so it contains around 33% bio-oil.
Local time is now 20.00

We had our Parliament election last Sunday. It went OK.
Today I have planted a new appletree. In our garden there is an old appletree that my grandma planted almost one hundred years ago. I like the the taste of the fruit and want to multiplicate the tree for generations to come. The name of the species is " Santra" according to my grammy.
Local time is 15.58

I decided to write in English in this blog and in Finnish in my ytya-blog.
In this blog I try to tell about my biodiesel test. My idea is to start a new series of test with my old Volkswagen Jetta. This ancient car from the year 1987 has run more than 600 000 kilometers and the fuel will be changed to cold-pressed canola oil.

Starting this blog
Local time is 22.03 in the evening.