Biodiesel progress report

After a couple of months and 1000 miles running my Landcruiser on biodiesel I have the following to report:

Pros:

• Feels great to be driving on soybeans!
• Getting gas at SFbiofuels has been easy (very nice people there too)
• The car runs perfectly well and a little more quietly than on petrodiesel
• No more puffs of black smoke when starting the car (it’s puffs of white smoke now)

Cons:

• The exhaust smell takes a little getting used to (smells like a french fryer, which I guess is still better than regular exhaust)
• 10% lower gas mileage

My next goal is to get my kids’ school to switch their 8 buses over to biodiesel (I’d love to hear from people who have done a similar project).