Run your car on fryer grease

TractorLegend · Jul 12, 2005

www.frybrid.com

Thought this may interest the inquisitive.
Maybe they'll make a Kioti kit?? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

RedRocker · Jul 12, 2005

I can see it now, "I'd like an eggroll, fried won ton and fill er up." /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JLoaf · Jul 13, 2005

My brother-in-law recently told me about a guy he does business with that runs an F-250 on 25% diesel / 75% KFC grease.
The guy is a mechanical engineer. He supposedly made a grease filtration system in his garage for about $500.
He gets the grease free! That's cheap fuel.
Why hasn't Exxon told us about this? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

lhfarm · Jul 13, 2005

Helped a friend and his daughter install one of the Greasecar kits in an old VW Jetta. You warm the engine up on diesel and switch to grease. Before shutting down, you throw a purge switch to clear the fuel lines and switch back to diesel.

You plumb the heater hoses to the trunk where the 2nd tank is located. Coolant is run through the tank (and around a second filter) and the fuel line is run inside on coolant line to heat things up. Would take some engineering to install on a tractor /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif.

BigAl · Jul 13, 2005

I wonder if the exhaust would smell like French Fries ? I think I might like that /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Big Al

Av8r3400 · Jul 13, 2005

This concept has been around for years. ( Greasel )

The reason for heating the oil is to get it to flow and burn easier. If some smart chemist out there would come up with an additive to add to straight vegetable oil to get it to flow at low temps, that would be the end of the oil (and ag income) problem.