5 Steps To Convert Your Car or Truck to a Water Gas Hybrid

May 28, 2008. Believe it or not, you really can cut your gas consumption by 20% to 50% using only water and your car battery. This is done by simply adding a modified container next to your engine that extracts hydrogen from the water using your car battery as an electrolyzer. You just need to create a home-made electrode out of steel wire to ionize the water and then add it directly into your engine air intake. This hydrogen gas (Brown's Gas) boosts the efficiency of your engine and reduces fuel consumption.

1. Gather the Parts

Find at least one ordinary large plastic mason jar with a plastic lid. You want something close to 1 liter, since this will allow you more time between fill-ups. You may also choose to set up 2 jars as per below if you have space in your engine compartment. Some larger truck engines will make it hard to fit more than 1 jar in at a time. It is good to note that 1 liter of water will create close to 2,000 liters of hydrogen gas.

2. Assemble Your Hydrogen Generator

You'll need to start by drilling a number of holes in your lid for the various hoses and electrode attachments. For the electrodes, get 2 butterfly nuts with bolts sealed with rubber washers for attaching to approx 10 feet of stainless steel line around a base. You'll need to find or order a check-valve (blue valve as shown) to allow a small amount of air into the jar (note arrow direction). Come up with a structure to wrap your steel line around - such as the yellow Plexiglas "X" as pictured. You'll need about 10 feet of vacuum hose tubing (say 5/32 inside diameter) and a variety of hose T's, elbows and couplings to connect hoses. You'll also have to find some basic electric wire/fittings to connect your generator to your car battery. You can use only one jar if you have a 4 cylinder engine, or will need 2 or more if you have a V6 or V8.

3. Connect Wires/Hoses to Jar

After you have drilled all the necessary holes through your lid and properly sealed them with rubber washers or plumbers glue, add the check valve, 2 electrode connectors and the elbow hose fittings. The 2 electrodes will connect to the red/black wires of your battery.

There are two exhaust hoses coming out of the bottle. One of these hoses goes into the engine air intake, after the air filter, and the other is spliced into one of your engines vacuum hoses using a universal automotive tee connector. It is recommended for safety reasons to use at least 4 feet of hose from the jar to your engine intake/vacuum hose - so coil it up if too much.

4. Set Up the Electrical

You can set up the electrical in a few ways, but here is one. Run the black negative wire to the battery directly. Run the red positive wire first through a 15 AMP fuse (optional, but wise in case of a short) and then to the wiper wire (or alternator or whatever car item is active only when the car is turned on). This allows the generator only to be actively creating hydrogen gas when your car is running.

5. Mount the Generator and Test

You may choose to mount the generator in your engine if there is room, or in your trunk if you've created multiple jar generators hooked up together. It's up to you how you do it, but try bungee cords, and styrofoam to reduce vibration and keep the jar(s) secure. Now start your car once hooked up all hoses and wiring. You should see small bubbles coming off the electrodes (steel wires). You should also hear your engine slowly rev up as the hydrogen is pulled into the idling motor.