My dad told me about using a "gasogen" to power an internal combustion engine,the germans did it during WWII to power their equipment after all their fuel depots were destroyed in bombing raids....
They used not much more than an airtight wood stove to produce the combustible gases,and the carb would work well enough to allow it to run on them.....
A finnish guy in my hometown had a 60's ford Falcoln he converted to run on wood gas,he had a 55 gallon drum air tight wood stove in the trunk,and pipes going from it up over the roof,and into a hole cut into the hood,to feed the smoke to the egines intake....
I remember seeing him tooling around in it often,until the fire department declared it "unsafe" and he was forced to stop driving it on public roads....
They used not much more than an airtight wood stove to produce the combustible gases,and the carb would work well enough to allow it to run on them.....
A finnish guy in my hometown had a 60's ford Falcoln he converted to run on wood gas,he had a 55 gallon drum air tight wood stove in the trunk,and pipes going from it up over the roof,and into a hole cut into the hood,to feed the smoke to the egines intake....
I remember seeing him tooling around in it often,until the fire department declared it "unsafe" and he was forced to stop driving it on public roads....
