I "roasted" my oil - but it doesn't look right

This might even be my first post, because this is my first season with a blown alcohol motor. I've been searching, reading, and learning for months now.

One idea I saw worth trying was cooking the methanol out of my oil. So I bought a cheap roaster from Wal-Mart and gave it a try. I'm using Lucas 50 Plus as my oil. It started out as thick and honey colored. Then I made some passes and it took on the typical frothed up green nasty look. So I put it in the roaster and bubbled the methanol out using temps from 170-215, just to make sure I got any water out as well if there was any moisure left after the methanol was gone.

So eventually it stopped bubbling because all the methanol was gone.

Two issues:
1) My oil now looks dark, with perhaps a slight greenish tint.
2) The oil doesn't seem to have near the viscosity I started with

Is this what I should expect? Honestly I don't think I'd put this oil back in. The color I don't care about but the viscosity seems like a gamble I'm not willing to take.

Am I doing it wrong? Or is the oil just "done?" I think I put three passes on the oil. I'm going to re-tune my idle as I am guessing I'm way too rich at idle.

Thoughts?

 

What metal is the roaster made of?

 

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Hi, Well I don't have any firsthand experience boiling the oil the outlaw pro mod team I worked on ran the oil for 5-7 passes (one race) then changed it.

I did do some research a while back on here about boiling the oil and I do know that some brands do not like it as much as others. I will recommend running Brad Penn with Lucas oil stabilizer, We run 70 weight but the Top Dragster I tuned for ran 50 weight and had no problems. That car with a BBC ran 6.20's in the quarter turning it no more than 8,000 rpm for reference.

Hope this helps a little, I want to say Mike Canter chimed in on boiling oils a while back.

Trevor Sherwood

 

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speaking of mike canter



dude u r late , where r u ?

come on get on it .....