Follow the Adventure
| Click on the links above to see our "Wok-umentary" of our three
month journey living in a bus as our family of five converts the
world's first luxury motor home to run on free, waste vegetable oil,
and then drive home, cross country on
The Fat Of America |
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June
  
I tried to explain in the Overview why
we wanted to do it, now we just had to do it.
We started our initial plans on the project in June. Actionable
items included:
- Search Ebay and the Internet for a decent vehicle that we can afford.
OR
- Search Ebay for a great vehicle that we will have to take a loan
for.
- Research if this type of vehicle has been done before, and
if so, learn from those*.
- Keep asking each other "Are we crazy?", and "What the hell are
we doing"
- Search the internet community to see if anyone could give me
a good reason why someone could not build something like this.
- Attempt to contact my WVO mentor Chris Goodwin, at Frybrid in Seattle, and
see if he will sell me some of his top quality components if he can
guaranty they will work on a 11 liter, $50,000 bus
engine.
I posted my first public question to the Frybrid forum on June
14th....
Click on the dates in June on the left, to read about the details....
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* My research indicated that while there have been several hippies
and college students whom have converted old school busses to run on
WVO and driven cross country, my research could not find any
evidence of a family ever doing this trip, nor anyone having
converted a luxury motor
home, nor any such a expensive, large and sensitive engine as the 11 liter engine,
Additionally, I found now evidence of anyone who went cross country
on WVo that did not have many fuel related breakdown, or built a system that ACTUALLY worked, and
successfully made the trip 100% without debilitating mechanical failure.
What's more, I could not find anyone who had successfully employed a
Mobil filtration and dewatering system -capable of gathering and
cleaning waste oil in real time, while driving. The ability to
gather fuel "on-the-fly" would be a required
component for my vision of the "Freedom Machine"
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