Sean,
Is the speedometer on the first or second lap around?
Peter
Looking good Sean!
BBB
Thatās very impressive, and more then adequate for trips to Wal-Mart, or junk yard. Ha! In light of your comments on the 2003 Wood powered thread of late, did the temps go wild? Iād love to see some graphs of various temps vs speed. No response nessesary, Iām just antsy cause I canāt go drive mine and see for myself. 
Thatās awsome, would love to see your design someday.
Hi Sean, Congrats on your truck success. Iām still small engine, but looking forward to the vehicle running on wood gas, not soon though.
I have a question about welding EMT and that is, is it plated with a galvanized finish?
Thanks, Pepe
Chris,Peter,Carl,Wayne,Richard C.And Richard Pepe
Chris Seymour
Thank you that means alot!!!
Very impressed myself with your charcoal powered van
very nice job!!!
Peter
That was the first lap a true 80mph
I will keep working on it going to need a bigger engine!!!
Wayne
Thank you that means a great deal to me.
Let the woodgas fleet being!!!
Carl
Your looking good with your build keep going itās all worth it in the end!!!
The temps will vary from city to
highway driving. The gasifier gauges
will let me know what I can and canāt
do. No graphs yet still building them.
Richard Cooper
Congratulations on your recent drive on wood!!!
Plans are in the works still collecting
data but it will be soon.
Richard Pepe
Itās a little lonely out here on the road we need more drivers!!!
Yes emt is plated with galvanized
wear a resiperator or oxygen mask. If you
notice a sweet taste in your mouth
stop welding and change your protocols
you are on the verge of catching metal fume fever.
I have stopped welding that stuff long ago
and designed around the problem. Regards Sean
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Back at it again
This past week I have driven over 400miles on wood!!!
Some on highway and some in the city. Average 30-50-100 miles per day. At the beginning of the week I put $20.00
in the f-150 the gauge read 1/2 full. 400miles later I still have most of that $20.00 left over. Took some pics. at the request of others
of temp readouts. If I have this right the first pic. is with a empty hopper driving at 35mph for 20min. The second is the mileage to date and Gasoline usage. Third is running 70mph for 20min. When all conditions are perfect inside the gasifier I will see temp. rise on accelerations and level off with speed still increasing. The gauge layout is left gas exit temp before the heat x-changer, center is the grate temp, right is the hopper refuel/
bridge indicator. With the probes doing there job correctly I have the ability to put the gasifier right on edge and hold it there where it is most efficient without damaging the unit,driver/operator or truck. HWWTF Sean
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Been a while since I have updated this thread the ford continues to run very well.
I will be out driving later today and will shoot some new video. Also planing on taking this system apart in the near future for a 15,000 mile inspection.
Video below is a test I did last year to see if the gasifier would be able to take the stress of high rpm driving for a duration of time.
My total mileage of driving for the year is 20,000mies 15,000 of that was pure wood power.
HWWT
Hey there Sean, as in, you have my hat. It looks like you have a nitrous oxide effect going on by revving out that high and making five years of yahoo woodgas commentary of slower than normal rpms prove to be B.S. But how about 15 minutes of crawling around parking lots? Will it be like a Ford Cobra pulling a plow? I want to HWWT
Hi There Mr. Drost
Guilty as charged I still have the hat and glasses 
While running this test I did notice the truck had more pick me up than usual. Seems that the more heat put into the system (by high revving) the faster the truck wanted to get up and go. Keep in mind this is still a v6 pulling trailers can be a bit of a challenge 95% of the time I pull it off without using gasoline. The truck seems to do okay in light to light traffic as well as slow speed driving. A v8 under the hood would certainly do a little better . Best Regards Sean
Hi Sean
What size of restriction are you able to get away with before risking making tar with your f150? I am currently running a 7 1/4āā restriction in my WK gasifier to power the stock 4.3L tbi v6 installed in my 1990 3/4 ton sierra. The truck performs very well at lower speeds i.e 20-80km/hr but has trouble maintaining 90+km/hr. In 4th gear I can only get the rpms up to 2000-2200 while on the flat. My goal is to tune the truck for speeds of 50km-100km/hr. do you think opening up the restriction would give me the added gas to maintain these speeds or is the v6 just not capable with this size/weight of truck.
I had the notion that the v6 4.3l (being a 5.7l minus 2 cylinders) would be able to crank out enough hp to get the truck up to at leas 100km/hr but with higher RPMs (and evidently yours is capable of this). I have no dought that the truck can do this but I cant seem to get the RPMs up high enough (past 2200 in 4th). Iām debating whether this is a insufficient gas problem (fixable), a timing problem (not fixable without computer modification) or a problem with something I have no idea about. truck weighs roughly 4800lb with the gasifer installed.
an engine swap to a 5.7l 350 tbi may take place in the future (it would be my first) but I canāt justify trashing a perfectly good engine when it has treated me so good thus far.
Thanks for the input
Dustin
Hi Chris, I forgot about that video. Now that two people have videos of idle speed travel, previous concepts of limited range capabilities are out the window. Between farm chore operation and then out revving any engine Iāve ever had, weāre not building picky slugs. You video guys give an excitement of why not me. But I generally donāt miss a weekly paycheck without some money going out to buy or save for some gasser item. And I have around 20 sawblades hanging up in the cold work garage. Iām back to using warm faucet water to get feeling in my fingers for this season only. Iāll get excited every time it gets over 40 degrees. Might have to pay the long dollar for that firetube, as the search may cut into work hours and work against me. Thanks for sharing your experiences, Doug Drost with real frost
Doug,
Go for that firetube man, and the shear cut cooling fins make welding a snap, iād still be hunting for scrap. I have completed my firetube today, look for an update soon. Iām headed for the warm water too, my fingers are mighty numb, it got cold QUICK! For all the heat it makes, the welder doesnāt heat the garage too well.
Hi Marvin,
Until recently we have been fudging the bends on the containers using whatever we have on hand scrap dock pile for round shapes. Or angle bench steel and welding table for square shapes. I put too much stress on my welding table and warped it DARN. Wound up buying a finger break from Harbor Freight for $240.00 I am very pleased with it all around cleaner looking products and sped production big time. I donāt think I could have built one cheaper than just buying from Harbor Freight.
Sean
Hi Sean, I took your advice and bought one of those Harbor Freight brakes for bending metal, only I did you one better! I used their New Years Day 25% off coupon and paid 172.49 + sales tax. Those are heavy suckers at around 100 lbs. Iām sure this will work much better and faster than my clunky old homemade one.
Don M
Hi Don,
Wow thatās cool!! Hope you like it I am sure it will help you out greatly with your building.
Happy New Year Sean