I'm interested in pursuing an alternative fuel method and saw this in a movie and was wondering how difficult and expensive it is to convert a gas running car to one using fryer fat. Would a Diesel car be better to convert?
How difficult is it to change a car (1996 Honda Accord) into one which would run on fryer fat?
If you wanted to run a car on cooking oil, you would have to start with a diesel engine. To my knowledge, the only biofuel that gasoline powered cars can run is E85 ethanol.
How difficult is it to change a car (1996 Honda Accord) into one which would run on fryer fat?
It would have to be Diesel to convert. You could convert to electric.
It wouldn't be hard at all if your car's a diesel.
Just heat the fryer fat and feed it into your engine. It's best to run for 5 to 10 minutes on diesel fuel and let the engine warm up, then switch to fry grease, then switch back to diesel for the last few minutes before you turn the engine off. But it can be done with any diesel engine.
You cannot run a gas engine on fry grease. Gas engines are very fussy about their fuel. If you don't give them what they want, they will refuse to run.
Impossible.
Start with a diesel preferable an old diesel without a lot of pollution controls on it. Then you challenge is cleaning up the fryer fat so it doesn't clog up the fuel injectors.
