It was great putting faces with the names..JP, JB, Wally, Steve (604td), Phil, Mark (nyredneck), Headshot zod, Dave, DonnieJ...And those who's names I can't remember...

Thanks to JP for the hospitality, Mini Murph was asleep before I made it down the hill to 118 :)

Did anyone get pics of the Tahoe with the 300SDL (?) Mercedes engine???

And thanks to Batteryboy for the "raffle" of how many grease rigs to show...It seems my guess was the closest..Here's what I won

78AH ups battery - does a great job with the 12v transfer pump.

Andy

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Thanks again to JP for a great weekend! We enjoyed it, hope to see everyone next time. Mike

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In God We Trust...All Others Are Checked NCIC

Hey JP,

Thanks for hospitality you bestowed upon us! It went so fast I din't even get to drink the SAM ADAMS -- but you know that SWA LLIM MIVER LAPE ELA wuz sooooooooooo dam good glad I was able to crash behind the potra putty without even noticing the smell! Just wanna know who the hell couldn't wait
and snuck aroung the back !!! I woulda prefered WVO to that!!
You tell that brewmeister to keep up the good jerk - I mean work ! Really _ Hickup -- next grease meet I'm drinkin ODOULS !!
Really the best part of the meet was meetin all the new veggy peeps that are gettin psyched to veggy up their carz & trux...... Oh my friend and his wife really loved your Inn - Wow ! We felt like we were eating at the four seasons without all the snobish bullshit attached!!
The hike up the mountain was brutal but well worth it.
Thanks again.!!

Batteryboy

PS will post pix after my upcomming 10 hr schnooze

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WHAZ UP hey all out there -nice to see some folks that aren't afraid to go against the grain and think for themselves and not just do as the masses!!!!!!!!!!!

Idea frm 1 tnk Fla MER- C DIS---http://www.metroups.com/article
http://www.gti.net/greasca

Thanks again for a great time JP!!!
I think you and Wally gave me sufficient motivation to finish actually installing my kit (-:

It was great meeting everyone and sharing ideas.

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Her
"Do I smell McDonalds?"
Me
"No, that's my Bimmer"...
Her
"Will it make me fat?"
Me
"You're already fat"

Here R Some GREASESTOCK 2006 PIX


Love Batteryboy
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WHAZ UP hey all out there -nice to see some folks that aren't afraid to go against the grain and think for themselves and not just do as the masses!!!!!!!!!!!

Idea frm 1 tnk Fla MER- C DIS---http://www.metroups.com/article
http://www.gti.net/greasca

JP & Wally,,

Ya might have seen this but in case not

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060501/NEWS02...

BB

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WHAZ UP hey all out there -nice to see some folks that aren't afraid to go against the grain and think for themselves and not just do as the masses!!!!!!!!!!!

Idea frm 1 tnk Fla MER- C DIS---http://www.metroups.com/article
http://www.gti.net/greasca

i wanta see close up pics of that chevy tahoe with the mercedes diesel engine :}:}:} was it 4wd ??? was it running on veggie ??? 5 cilinder turbo charged diesel ??? was it for sale ??? i could run it with NO KIT :}:}:}

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I have pics of most of the cars. The minute I find the freaking charger I can retrieve them.

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I like my martini's and biodiesel the same way-> NEAT!!!!!!!!

stage III methanol injector
Fried Diesel Blog
U.S.F.R.A. vehicle #284

Quote:
Originally posted by: NJ_M715
Bodycounter, hope you see this. This is how I attached the thermostat to the glowplug tee. It's the best pic I could get. Mike

[IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i176/nj_m715/gpheater.jpg[/IMG]

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98 6.5 'Burb

Hi NYREDNECK, it was good meeting you and everone else who I've had the pleausre of talking to. It was great to see the event grow from last year's meet which I was partially responsible for starting by posting a thread asking if there is a grease meet in the NY tri state area.

JP, thanks again for your generosity and putting Greasestock 2006 together and the hard work behind it. For next year, how about charging for food and drinks?

NYREDNECK and everyone else:

I like to keep a low profile except to people I've met so please do not post any pics of me on the forum.

Mike,
Thanks for the pic. What I see is just what I got from your explanation. Great way to go. I think I just might be done in on the brazing though. Im not that good at it. I can braze pipes and solder electrical but not weld type brazing. I guess I will go with the jury rigged "C" clamps for now :)

And Steve..... I thought those black pants looked familiar... JK... Steve, I do have a picture of you holding up your heater unit.... Shoot me an email and I will send that to you to use at your discretion..

Wally, That was some awesome free publicity for you. Dude, they made you sound like the Adam of the grease-Eden. Only thing I disagreed with was the reporters flip time estimate for payback of the "system" To me its looking closer to 2-3 yrs but for the environment in the meantime its a good thing.

Plus its just cool to be a greaser, Daddy-o

Thanks again to our Host - JP.

Heres to the midyear cold weather greasemeet.....

Lee

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Novelty+Economy+Environment= NEE.....
I am a Knight that says NEE

Greasestock 06' was an awesome event! Hats off and many thanks to JP. Also it was great to meet some many other friendly and interesting people. Wally,Excellent job for promoting and installing so many systems. 604TD, if everyone was like you the world would be a better place and everybody would be driving veggiecars, keep up the good work. }{ead$hot Zod it was great talking with you about dodges and cummins, we will have to chat some more and good luck on the circuit. Battery Boy, todbacke, NYredneck, NJ_M715 and all of the others that I met meant but dont know your handle, it was great meeting all of you, definatly exciting to see that so many others that are involved in this thing are such awesome, cool peeps. Overall it was great to see so many independent and highly innovative people. All of you people that are interested in this movement are at higher level than the rest of the world, it shows your concern for the world and the environment and the people that live in it, as well as your high level of intelligence and compassion.
Keep on greasin'!!
GreenGreaser

99 Tahoe MB300SDL motor SVO
93 Dodge Ram 4x4 SVO
81 300SD SVO
Soon to be making BioDiesel with all of this extra oil I can't turn down and cant use in the SVO vehicles

Quote:
Originally posted by: }{ead$hot Zod
New York Times pages B1 and B3 of the Metro Section.

Dave, Steve, Tod, Jessie, Tom, Don, Wally

you all made it

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I like my martini's and biodiesel the same way-> NEAT!!!!!!!!

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Fried Diesel Blog
U.S.F.R.A. vehicle #284
Today's Times?

Andy

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98 6.5 'Burb

Are there any legal reasons why I can't or souldn't post it here?

Andy

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98 6.5 'Burb

Murph, I emailed you the nyt reporter's #. Ask him if you can post article here.

Fill It Up, Please, and Check for Clogged Arteries By PETER APPLEBOME YORKTOWN, N.Y. - About midway through the event billed as Greasestock, a voice boomed out, "Steve is goingto demonstrate his vegetable-oil-sucking device."
This might not be guaranteed to draw a crowd everywhere, but when you have a bunch of people with cars, trucksand S.U.V.'s that run mostly on leftover grease from Chinese or Italian restaurants, it is no minor event.
And sure enough, everyone was soon looking on attentively as Steve Leung flipped a switch and a viscous streamof yellow soybean oil was slurped from a 36-gallon tank into a 5-gallon container you could use to pour vegetableoil into your gas tank.
"I don't know if it was a vision from God, but when someone told me you could run a car on vegetable oil, I knew Ihad to do it," said Dave Kandell of Huntington, on Long Island, whose
1985 Mercedes 300TD has letteringreading "Veggie-Powered" on the back and "Refueled at Rosa's Pizza" on a side window. "It began as a statementabout oil companies and greed, but I also like saving money."
Grease Nation, which turned out about 60 people in 20 veggie-powered cars at Peter Pratt's Inn in Westchester onSunday, remains a niche within a niche within a niche. But with gas prices spiraling toward $4 a gallon, it's not abad niche to be in.
So they came from near and far - Jesse Goldin, 23, from Brewster, in his first car, a 1985 Mercedes he boughtfrom Mr. Kandell; Tod Backe from Stowe, Vt., in an oversize 1982 Volkswagen Westfalia camper; Tom Lee fromSouth Kent, Conn., in a shiny Chevrolet Tahoe S.U.V. refitted with a Mercedes diesel engine.
It's not as odd as it might seem. After all, when the German inventor Rudolph Diesel came up with his high- compression engine in the 1890's, one of his thoughts was to run it on vegetable oil. And commercial biodiesel, apopular alternative fuel, contains vegetable oil.
The grease cars, as they're known, have diesel engines and are fitted with two tanks, one for diesel, one forvegetable oil. They heat the oil to keep it from clogging.
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/nyregion/03towns.html?pagewanted=pr int 5/3/2006

Fill It Up, Please, and Check for Clogged Arteries -New York Times Page
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So the process is more reliable in hot weather than cold, but the cars run all year. Drivers start a car on diesel andthen switch over to vegetable oil, which can come from local restaurants or from oversize containers fromdiscount stores like Costco.
"I've found that Italian places tend to have the best grease, and Chinese places are real hit or miss," said DonWilson, who drove up from Philadelphia. "I've seen Chinese places with real good grease, and I've seen placeswhose grease makes me rethink whether I'd want to eat there."
There are two routes to grease-dom, but both of them tend to run through Internet sites like greasecar.com, wherepeople buy kits to convert diesel engines to operate on vegetable oil.
Some people, like Mr. Kandell, buy the kit and install it themselves. Others hire someone like Wally Little ofWally's Super Service in Mahopac, who has converted about 150 engines for vegetable use.
"I've had people in their 20's, people in their 80's, doctors, tree huggers - there's no particular stereotype," hesaid. "It gets busy whenever oil prices come up. Normally, I get maybe 10 inquiries a week. Last week I had 50 or60." It costs about $2,000 to convert a car, and most people make that up in a year with what they save on gas, hesaid.
But it's not for everyone. You usually get the oil free, but you have to store it in vats and filter it yourself. So Mr.Lee, for example, has 1,200 gallons of the stuff lying around at home.
It can spill or get messy, and unless you'rereally conscientious about your filtering, you can face a clogged engine or a stalled car periodically.
Still, the fuel costs almost nothing, it's much less polluting, and the geopolitics is right - you get your energy fromthe local pizza parlor, not some Middle Eastern oil colossus.
Jonathan Pratt, who owns the inn where the gathe

finally found my charger. Here are a few more pics.

Fried Diesel Blog

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I like my martini's and biodiesel the same way-> NEAT!!!!!!!!

stage III methanol injector
Fried Diesel Blog
U.S.F.R.A. vehicle #284

Thanks JP, it was an amazing event. I still cant believe there were close to 75 people VS the 12 last year.

Batteryboy i noticed the pics of you guys up on turkey mountain, I guess you did get to conquer the mountain finally. too bad i left early or i would have definatly joined you.

It was great seeing everybody again, and meeting soo many great new people. Too bad Sammy Chamois missed it but you'll have to come next year!

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"Don't let 'um tell you the future's electric, cause gasoline is not measured in metric." - The White Stripes (The Big Three Killed My Baby)

Hey JP and Wally the CNN interview was great! I saw it yesterday morning 5/7. It looked like some of the footage was from Greasestock 06'. ABC called us on friday and said they wanted to interview me on 5/8. My wife called them back to give them the ok, but they said that their news crew had changed plans and they would get back to me.
Keep on Greasin everybody

Batterboy
I was hoping to hike the Turkey with you on such a fine spring sunday, but the kids were all greased out. I really like the way you have your fuel sponsers posted on your ride. I've been thinking about asking a few of my consistent suppliers if they would be down with it. Would any of those batteries that you have be able to store power for a home solar system? I am working on a system and would love to be able to get some cheap batteries. What price will gas have to get to make you want to convert that Boxter?:)
GreenGreaser

Get a used viper (pre-94) and dump that new v-12 Audi uber diesel in it. Just a thought :)

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I like my martini's and biodiesel the same way-> NEAT!!!!!!!!

stage III methanol injector
Fried Diesel Blog
U.S.F.R.A. vehicle #284

You guys gotta check out this car. This fucka is mean!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4638619678...

Sean in Hulaland
you sure want to sell that subarban, YOU POSTED IT TWICE :}:}:} it would be too expensive to ship it across the BIG water

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