Might come in handy someday!
http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/id2.html

 

Interesting!

 

This is nothing new. I have my TTB Form 5110.74 permit from the ATF to make my own and it is free. Takes about a month to get.

http://www.ttb.gov/forms/f511074.pdf

 

How difficult do you feel that it is to make the ethanol consistent enough to be a viable race fuel? I love the idea of cheap high octane gas and am set up to run e85 in the car already.

 

Follow Popcorn Sutton's guide to making it. Best thing to do

 

I found a guy who makes E98 locally....tried some in my car to pass emissions.
Passed with flying colors!

 

bump, thank you for the link kind sir

 

Sounds like it could have to be a project I might try. What is the regulations on selling it and to whom could you sell the excess to easily? I think it would be pretty easy to make your money back producing E85 depending on the regulations/taxes on sale of it.

 

make your own methanol! blow your house up!

2 birds with one stone.

in almost every state you need a license to produce and a license to store it including registration with the ATF. it is a hazardous and combustible substance, it is also an alcohol which is subject to ATF(alcohol, tobacco and firearms) regulations. as alcohol is a controlled substance and also is taxable, in some states even 100% illegal to produce.

it's basically "moonshine".

is it worth it? probably not. maybe one day, but not now.

 

Haha, generally Texas laws are pretty relaxed on subjects like this and I was going to buy an acre of cheap land on the outskirts of the DFW area to produce some if I tried. you can get an acre for a couple grand that will appreciate in value so its not a real risk. No way would I do this on my residence, but in a small scale it could bring in a little extra money as well as eliminate my need for buying e85 to run the car on. just a thought.

 

A guy I know from drag racing heats his shop with waste oil. He was getting hassled over storing a large quantity of flammable hazardous waste in an improper facility. His solution was to buy a used box truck with a blown engine and slap an appropriate hazmat placard on it. He got the truck for a song. it even had a hydraulic lift gate so loading and unloading is easy. You could probably do the same thing for methanol/ethanol.storage

 

Its easy to make.

Here's what we did: MurileeMartin.com » Blog Archive » RX-7 Features Engine-Heated Moonshine Still, Garbage-Disposal-Based Margarita Machine

 

THAT is AWESOME!!!!!

 

Man I wish Canada had something similar to that 5110.74 permit. Here if you produce Ethanol, for any intent and purpose, it's taxed as drinkable alcohol, and you need a corresponding permit to distill on a provincial level. Looks like it's backyard moonshining for me.

"A little bit for you, Rx-7, a little bit for me"



P.S. you guys should check out "Alcohol can be a Gas" by David Blume. I've only watched a presentation so far, and it's pretty good information.