Yo dawg....

Very impressed

Top Gear did it.

Seems like a good way to asphyxiate yourself on the way to the store.

Man, I hope the A/C in that thing works, cause even the smallest WB stove I know would be such overkill. Fella must be a 'cold person' to need that much heat. Last Volvo I drove had a pretty good heater....

More examples of wood gas vehicles, with picturey goodness.

That's not a wood stove...THIS is a wood stove. Not only does it heat the cab, but it fuels the engine as well.



* - Google on "wood gasifier" for lots of tech info and pics.

Using the stove only for heat? Weak sauce.

Power the whole damn vehicle! (new window)

mine is fine thanks

A gas (sipped from the gas tank) burner heater was available as an option on early VWs and Porsches, for when engine warmed air wasn't enough... Google eberspacher heaters

Think they actually had, or may still have, kits for VW's back in the 70's to do this since VW heaters were about as effective as their anti-gravitational units.

/nothing like u sing an ice-scraper INSIDE the car... WHILE you were driving.


IrateShadow: Seems like a good way to asphyxiate yourself on the way to the store.

Giggity

At least he's allowed to drive it. It would never be allowed in the land of the free.

Top Gear did it.

Werd

At least he's allowed to drive it. It would never be allowed in the land of the free.

Cause it makes you a freakin hazard!
Not only are you putting out more than 10X the pollution, but you are putting open flame near a combustive gas! Take this thing near a gas station without having that fire out cold and you could take out the whole block.

mark12A: Top Gear did it.

Werd

That's what I was about to say. I was halfway expecting that I was going to see that James May had put a wood-burning stove in a car. After all, he did put a sauna in one.

SniperJoe: mark12A: Top Gear did it.

Werd

That's what I was about to say. I was halfway expecting that I was going to see that James May had put a wood-burning stove in a car. After all, he did put a sauna in one.



Clarkson made the modifications. Hammond and may tested it. Google "Top Gear Cottage Car."

Meh.

Gecko Gingrich: Clarkson made the modifications. Hammond and may tested it. Google "Top Gear Cottage Car."

Or just click the link in the second post. ;)

Huh, one of the few episodes I hadn't seen! Kudos for the link!

Buddy of mine is big on building electric vehicles and has been trying to convince me to convert my little Ranger. Problem lies in that I only drive that in the winter, and I know the cold saps the batteries bad enough without having to heat the interior. Was playing with the idea of putting a wood stove in the bed and running air ducting around it and into the cab before I just gave up on the idea as being overly complicated.

/mediocre story, bro
//google "electric crazy horse pinto"
///have noticed his EV's are summer use only

TheMega: Think they actually had, or may still have, kits for VW's back in the 70's to do this since VW heaters were about as effective as their anti-gravitational units.

That would be the *gasoline powered* internal heater unit of which you speak. My father had one that he transferred from air-cooled car to air cooled car; it sounded an awful lot like sitting on top of a jet engine/wing inside a plane, reeked, was quite possibly a CO hazard, and could be turned on with a timer switch set inside the dashboard clock unit... a mechanically-timed, auto-on, gas powered heater. Scary scary! But oh man would that damned thing crank out the BTU's!! It got so hot, it would cause the layers of the safety glass to bubble and separate from each other as the plastic layer melted.

It's no wonder more of those things weren't mobile flamethrower carbecues, but then again, that's what the wiring harnesses in the Type 1's were for.

/In the Type 2 busses, he would also use these as the back-seat heater:
Link (new window)

In before Xzibit meme.

He took out the passenger seat? Every time I've gotten wood in a car, it's been the back seat.

A guy locally installed a small wood burning stove in his volkswagon bus. It worked quite well. Doesn't take much heat to warm up such a small space. He drove all over the states in that bus at one time.

Be easier to run a hot exhaust pipe through the center of the cab.

Thanks to Lord Schtupp for the idea...

oh just steampunk your entire car and get it over with, you know you want to

Trucks modded to run on wood gas are common in best Korea.

I wholeheartedly endorse this idea. Catalytic converters have really put a dent in car exhaust-related suicides. Bless you, crazy man. You're doing God's work.

Gecko Gingrich: Jensaarai: SniperJoe: mark12A: Top Gear did it.

Werd

That's what I was about to say. I was halfway expecting that I was going to see that James May had put a wood-burning stove in a car. After all, he did put a sauna in one.



Clarkson made the modifications. Hammond and may tested it. Google "Top Gear Cottage Car."

Or just click the link in the second post. ;)

Well, yeah... That too. Heh.

StoneColdAtheist: That's not a wood stove...THIS is a wood stove. Not only does it heat the cab, but it fuels the engine as well.

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* - Google on "wood gasifier" for lots of tech info and pics.

Old School is the Best School (new window)

/I want one.

Marcus Aurelius: I wonder how he'll feel about the stove after his next accidental side impact.

Having seen the inside of a 240 door I would say he probably won't feel much of anything.

The Amazing Rando!: Thanks to Lord Schtupp for the idea...
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Brilliant!

/damn!

jigger: At least he's allowed to drive it. It would never be allowed in the land of the free.

Of course not. He's not wearing his seatbelt.