E85 Viper Biofuel Car Breaks World Record

Watch a biofuel powered Viper beat the world record in the standing mile formerly owned by a gasoline powered car

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• biofuel
• automobile
• renewable
• viper
• e85

[Z1Z2Z5Z4]

Amazing!! How the hell did you get that much horsepower with a biofuel engine?

[kaj3]

Thanks! E85 is 105 octane so ran twin turbos and lots of modifications :)

[kaj3]

e85 is 105 octane and burns relatively cool which means you can run a lot of boost

[Blainne123]

The Viper was Twin Turbocharged. With the right build the Viper can easily exceed 1500+ horsepower. Hennessey offers Twin Turbo'ed Vipers to the general public, which I believe that he BROKE this record above in one of his hitting 225 MPH in 1 MILE.

[kaj3]

Right except he did this in a *race* car not a street car.  The e85viper is street legal.

[malbert34]

@cktsantiago Well well well Mr Professor -_-

[cktsantiago]

@malbert34 The corn used for current Ethanol production is NOT food grade, but instead is feedstock. That means it's only good as livestock feed, the only thing used is the starches, the proteins (the real feed value) are saved and sold to local farmers as FEED for their cattle. Which, by the way, is a VERY high quality feedstock.

[myspacesuxmynutz]

@malbert34 we were going to use the crops as fuel to get the crops to the poor countries, but we made too much fuel, didnt have crops left to feed them, and sold it mixed with petroleum and called it E85

[malbert34]

Why are we using crops to power cars that could otherwise be used to feed the people in poor countries?

[sharpspins]

@Z1Z2Z5Z4  deli m,adi banjoht

[gringopirate]

@westwatford

Biofuel can be made from hemp so should be able to

[caps982]

go to the Texas Mile

[westwatford]

can it run on hemp