The diesel boosted with a glow plug or hot spot element was tried but hasn't been fully explored and hasn't worked out yet. But we've been enjoying our normal winter weather for the last three or four months so very little testing has been done till just this weekend.
Here,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6fuW-L4ZQs is a stock gasser conversion. This is being used as a bench mark to get some stock performance numbers. Not yet fully broken in, just has about 20 ounces of fuel through it.
Kero and methanol? Maybe. No doubt I'll be trying all sorts of weird mixes. With a gasser conversion we don't have rod failure issues to worry about.