Circumvent rationing?

[Sperg_rancher]

or some other naphta-flamable derived product

I was going to mention this too. naphta is great compared to simply ethanol. Sadly most places have banned it for being carcinogenic, so you can't get it anywhere.

 

[Dawdler]

I was going to mention this too. naphta is great compared to simply ethanol. Sadly most places have banned it for being carcinogenic, so you can't get it anywhere.

Sadly it's what it is.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Companies got in and started paying money to resturants for waste oils

Yeah I was just reading up about those types of companies, apparently they do some processing on the restaurant wastes and flip that shit into various commodities markets with trading floors. Makes sense when you think about it, but I guess I didn't know how many processes they could run on the waste product to make it a new product.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Yeah I was just reading up about those types of companies, apparently they do some processing on the restaurant wastes and flip that shit into various commodities markets with trading floors. Makes sense when you think about it, but I guess I didn't know how many processes they could run on the waste product to make it a new product.

If you grab an old diesel you can run it off of used engine oil (strain it properly). Make sure there's no water in it unless you want rods getting slung.
If you live out in the sticks these companies aren't as prevalent so you could do it probably...

 

[KosherFarms.net]

meme technology. Woodgas reduces your engine power to 10-20% what it would have and needs to be cleaned so it doesn't tar up everything. Vegetable oils are worser for the engine and it's easier to stock gas than whatever grade of vegetable oil.

Water filters easily mitigate the tarring issue with woodgas

Ford 6.9/7.3

6.9 and 7.3 IDIs can and do frequently hit millions of miles with minimal work. 7.3s have thin cylinder walls and problems with cavitation though. 6.9s are invincible all around.
The bigger problem is these motors hate starting without glowplugs and sourcing glowplugs could be difficult in the future.

Bonus is that they will run off of anything that burns. Literally any flammable liquid that you can get to flow through it's injection system will run it. Including stale gas

Detroit diesels

2 stroke detroit diesels are some of the toughest engines ever built and will probably outlive us all but get shit fuel economy and very fucking loud. In my own experience little things frequently fail on them the most but those could be fixed easily in the future. DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING FROM DETROIT DIESEL 4 STROKE THEY ARE SHIT.
(2 stroke detroits also run off of anything that burns)


But if you want something cheap that is tough go for any truck with a ford 300 I6.

These motors are so fucking overbuilt that during cash for clunkers when the government was destroying perfectly good vehicles for "the environment" They would pour sand down the intakes to destroy the motors of the cars.

Well when they would pour sand down the intakes of these fuckers they spat the sand out and kept running and only lost compression because the fucking cylinders were being worn away by the sand. It take as many as 2 to 5 sand pours to kill these motors, and even then you could fix them with new piston rings and be back on the road again.

In case that doesn't sound impressive it usually took less than a cup of sand to kill and permanently disable other motors.

On top of being invincible the low compression means they will run off of shitty fuel, I've personally run them off of a blend of random different oils split with gasoline. Basically anything that with a flashpoint (semi close) to gasoline will run these motors. Meaning you can run these off of 30 year old stale gas just fine.

Spoiler: Driving without coolant sperging

Another story about these motors is there was a farmer who used to own a truck with one of these in it but the block had cracked after the coolant in it froze because some dumbass has put straight water into it. After the block cracked it would not hold coolant anymore but the farmer didn't stop driving it. He would just run it until it seized up from heat then let it rest and started it right back up again.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Another story about these motors is there was a farmer who used to own a truck with one of these in it but the block had cracked after the coolant in it froze because some dumbass has put straight water into it. After the block cracked it would not hold coolant anymore but the farmer didn't stop driving it. He would just run it until it seized up from heat then let it rest and started it right back up again.

Isuzu made good older engines too. I knew a guy who drove a swapped inline 6 diesel on a Chevy, ran out of engine oil because the vacuum put line went kaput and drained the oil out of it, he still managed to drive it home, put oil in it (drain plug was empty but no metal), and it started up no issue next day.
Cylinder wall and bearings probably didn't like it very much but a modern engine would seize and throw a piston out the block.

VW depends. If you get unlucky the block is no longer cylindrical but has oval like cut from wear.

 

[Dawdler]

The bigger problem is these motors hate starting without glowplugs and sourcing glowplugs could be difficult in the future.

No issue if you have access to manifold. Burning, diesel soaked rag as flames get sucked into intake and a good crank will start these engines. The other solution is simply charcoal fire under oil pan to heat everything up.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

No issue if you have access to manifold. Burning, diesel soaked rag as flames get sucked into intake and a good crank will start these engines. The other solution is simply charcoal fire under oil pan to heat everything up.

You can also do a block heater in the oil pan but at the same time that's just another point of failure.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

Water filters easily mitigate the tarring issue with woodgas

If your car has bong water, you're ungovernable.

 

[Dawdler]

You can also do a block heater in the oil pan but at the same time that's just another point of failure.

Better 2 than 1. Glowplugs rarely fail tho