How about the Toyota 1.6’s? Or the 2L categories? Lots of 4 cylinder cars out there.
Toyota has been using that same displacement motor from the 90’s at least, in the old Corollas, then in the Echo, and Yaris. Not certain if they are named alike or available to the south…
The Chevy Cavalier used a roughly 2L engine, tough as nails, probably a Japanese design…
Kevin,
You have done a whole lot of getting things done while I have been daydreaming about it. Now you are into that “other 75%” of learning experience that Wayne is always referring to. I also believe that Herb’s “Pie Chunker” method is a good one to start with, and that is what I am planning to use. I think Herb’s semi-automatic gravity-assisted electric band saw pie maker is a good part of the success. Set it up and come back when sliced. Any wood-chunker by definition is dangerous, you just have to make it reasonably safe and reliable, plus experience using it. Your flywheel/ brake as clutch sounds like it will work, as long as there is some “shock” absorbing in the system so it won’t twist a shaft in two! 
Well to clear up a few things.
Both Chris and Wayne have said many times that all “out front, public readable, non-Premuim sections” here ANY gasifier system can be discussed, pictured, dissected. Subject of course to the normal Net courtesy, discourse rules. This IS in the site rules section.
Second many here ARE small vehicle gasify developing, driving and picturing. Names of some put up by TomC and others.
Here is a few more Joe Monty’s Ford Escort SW, TerryS’s Toyota pickup, Dutch John’s Volvo car, Maxgasman’s Audi . .
For an actual small WK designed in the Premium section. WayneK shows in detail his IHC tractor system. Four cylinder, and at the low HP is a small car system capable.
I think some of you fellows need to do more all topic DOW reading versus talking, eh? When you keyboard talking realize you cannot read/listen.
My small car evolving down day was back when US gasoline to me was 30 cent to 60 cents a gallon. Most including family drove NOT PICKUPS but 5000-6000 pound 350-500 cid tanks for cars. I was younger, dumber, always figuring I could skeeter out of the way. The small ones I did. It was the more reasonable, more passenger, loads capable, very cheap to get inline six cylinder, inline four cylinder domestic stationwagons that I had my wrecks in. No skittering possible. Maximum braking, try to ease out of it.
Point is: these were my choice’s. And they made their choice’s. There have always been used small cars available from those who DID new make the small economical car choices. No frigging need in always been dino fuel rich USofA, Canada, Mexico for Gov’mints Dragons dictating choice. Belive me after the oilshockes not-availbilty’s of 1974, and then 1980 they could not give their large hog tank cars away. And I had to beat off wanting buyers from my little sippers.
UK, France, Italy, Japan and many others were, and will always be; dependent on overseas imported oils and insisted economy is/was sensible to preserve the financial outgo’s of their countries. No comment on the Hows they did their insisting. The upper classes always able . . . everyone else . . .
Now everyone else insisted to use BigGovermints mass trasit . . . shanks mare, bicycle. Class separations are back.
I say again. Too many in the US/Canada see the solutions as Taking Away. This will always be a demanded Top-Down not-long-term-solution. THIS evolves to Class’s developing and separations!
ONLY those actually Doing personally applied Do-It-Yourself, Bottom Up solutions are worth following, and reading. These are the only one’s with anything of worth learning from.
J-I-C Steve Unruh
Things are changing rapidly.
For decades we have been running 4 machines in the mill I’m working for, producing 1 million metric tons of news- and magazin paper a year. 2014 one of the standard news machines were shut down and the work force was reduced from 850 to 550.
Yesterday it was announced one of the magazine paper machines will be permanently shut down in June this year. 140 more workers will lose there jobs. I may be next in line. We’ll see.
Honestly I don’t really know what to think. Maybe this is what’s needed to finally make my mind up about how to spend what’s left of this life.
(The mill was first built in 1898 and the grand opening was in 1900. Six machines were pruducing newspaper in the early 1900s)
We went through the same thing here not that long ago. It has left the northern part of NH struggling. The best thing I think there is for these ex paper areas is to refocus on wood to energy. NH hasn’t done enough to develop this market in my opinion. I watched a video a while back about a town in Europe I think I don’t remember where it was. It was about a town where farmers decided to convert their grass to energy. But the interesting part is they built a full process around the local resources they can grow. I wish I could remember where it was.
My point is DOW to me is the right idea and those of us living in ex paper producing areas need to find a new market for our wood. That makes the most of the resource we have.
JO I wish the the best weathering this storm.
Best wishes Jo. The world is changing, both in terms of climate, and economic. I fear fossil fuels at the base of both. I was just having a deep discussion yesterday with a coworker about what to do with the relatively few days we all have, and what life really means. At least experience implementing wood energy gives an advantage over most.
Sorry to hear about the shut downs but I am not surprised. Many of our plants have shut down. A friend of mine made a good job for years as a "mill right’ worker, taking the machines apart loading them into shipping containers ti go to Japan and Brazil. He made several trips overseas to assemble the machines. Of course, as the number of machines becomes less, there is less to close and not as much to ship out.
The odd thing is the cold deck where the loggers pile logs until rail cars come in is busier than ever. They are logging our woods more than ever, but I don’t know where the logs are shipped to. As some have mentioned in the Recycle Section, most of our cardboard boxes are being baled and shipped over seas as a base for paper.
I had a plant close under me and I can tell you it affects every part of your life You don’t have a time card to punch and you don’t have a place to go, and it is highly likely that your check will shrink I was kind of lucky to be let go in LA where there are a lot of jobs, but maybe not what I was trained for or accustom to. I had to adjust. In your case 3-4 hundred workers let go at one time is going to put a stress on the job market. In the mean time, try to make friends with people in business or in a position to higher employees. That was my best source of employment after the layoff. Good luck my friend. TomC
Thanks guys! Time will always tell. Daydreaming of a DOW delivery business 
DoW isn’t a bad option. Commercially you are seeing the wood go to pellets and we are just starting to ramp up the essentially gas2liquids process, which is really a good use for the wood and to keep the forestry industry going. Mainly they are making jetfuels, which because of the strict standards had to go through some political shuffling to get approved even though they are 99.9% the same thing and using the same FT process being used by the oil companies. But it allows for the thinning of the forest that needs to be done.
JO, lm sorry to hear that. This trend is global l guess. We closed 2 facilitys in our factory last year, thanks god almost noone got fired-workers less thain 2 years to penzion got payd to compensate.
But yesterday, the director put a man of his own as our new “coworker” to blend in with us on my workplace. He is not obligated to learn about the process like every new workers we get, and some suspect he might be wired too. His job is report to the director wich worker is efficiant, and wich culd be dumped. Allso, he wants to make sure we deserve the “aditives” to the payment, the ones we get working 4 shifts and in a dangerous enviroment.
I havent yet met him, but if he gets close to me lll be glad to show him my arms scared with droplets of concentrated sulfiric acid and my work Tshirts that look like they had been shot by a 12 guage.
I am sorry too. We got crushed in the 80s as people quit buying papers and resorted to using tv then people switched to the internet.
Saturday morning
Yes, life goes on. It will go on much better for those who have a skill that requires hands-on. I saw the crash coming in '05. I started writing in '07. I’ve had 12 years of intense reading to understand every facet of the problem. We spent the last 60 years inventing labor-saving devices at the same time that we were trying to keep full employment. The computer pushed us over the edge. Containerized shipping pushed us over the edge.
Massive invesment flowed to China to take advantage of global-wage-arbitrage,. With ultra-cheap shipping, the low-cost labor market set the roof on wages. It was bad enough competing with laborers who earned 30–50$ a month. Competing with robots is even worse.
GOV has always tried to absorb workers who couldn’t make it in the competitive, private labor market. New Jersey spends $ 1,102,465 to maintain one mile of two lane highway for one year. Arkansas spends $ 36, 562. California spends $ 972,461.
The ability of GOV to absorb “excess” workers has been overwhelmed by the job losses from outsourcing and automation. Manufacturing is the number one value-added industry. When China set the roof on wages in manufacturing, everybody else had to follow to compete. The whole world has slowly slid down to a global-mean-wage.
This has wiped out discretinary spending.
“Yet S&P’s Global Luxury Index peaked almost three years ago in July 2014. Since then, it’s down about 13%.”
Inflation has gone up 40 fold but, wages have only gone up 17 fold. Labor’s share of the economic pie has fallen for decades. After WW II, America had 3% of the population and 50% of the manufacturing capacity. Times have changed and national aggregate income has fallen drastically.
I’ve written some 2,000 posts on this. We’re spending ourselves down and running on fumes.
Martin Armstrong has an ENORMOUS computer program that has predicted ALL of this. 23,000 variables and all the economic history of the world running on AI in real-time. He predict a crash in the sovereign-bond market. That would bring and end to most GOV programs and, more importantly, most imports. We import 8.1 million barrels of oil every day.
The whole “edifice” is kept afloat by FED printing. The stock market is at 2.7 times historical valuations. It is currently impossible to say just how long FED printing can keep air under our national hoivercar. When the air blast stops, the hover car comes to a halt. The national debt is now pegged at $ 20 trillion, even though it is twice as high. In a few weeks, we hit the debt ceiling. It is expected that congress will refuse to raise it above $20.1 trillion
The cheerleaders are cheering as loud as they can. Their cheers are sounding more and more hollow. 95% of the financial news is BS meant to keep the muppets from pulling out of the markets. Here is a list of names / writers who have proven to be correct all along.
Automatic Earth
Martin Armstrong blog
Charles Hugh Smith
James Kunstler, if you dare
Jim Willie, another scary one but, very interesting predictions/ideas
Hugo Salinas Price and Adrian Salbuchi write in both spanish and English
Zero Hedge has unbelievably informative articles
Daily Reckoning
Peak Prosperity
MISH, (Mike Shedlock)
The country has spent itself down from it’s post-war prosperity. “The monetary base, or “central bank money” – money created directly by a central bank – has gone from 10% of GDP in 2008 to 35% at the end of 2016 in OECD countries!” The FED is printing 25% of the GDP to keep things going. It takes $10 of new debt to get a $1 increase in GDP. Nobody knows how long this can go on, except perhaps Martin Armstrong.
Currently, the U.S. dollar is the least-ugly horse in the glue factiory. There is a lot of capital flight to the dollar. There is a $1 trillion flight from China alone in the last year. Everyone has acknowledged that the Euro and the Eurozone are TOAST. Greece wants to switch over to the dollar. There is capital flight out of the Euro.
There are a LOT of writers who claim that the dollar will become worthless. BS, the dollar has a very high uitlity value It is the most fungible instrument there is. NOT gold. Gold is a store-of-value, not a currency.
Keep cash in the house. The FDIC has $2.4 billion in assets and insures about $71 trillion. The Pension Benefits Guarantee Corporation is equally underfunded. U.S. GOV unfunded liabilities is reckonned at $ 212 trillion (Kotlikoff)
I wish all of you the best.
Guys, look what l stumbled on looking at random videos on youtube!
This is my very first mobile woodgas system! Dont laugh, l was about 14 years old and only started to discover the butyfull world of DOW.
Its a Tomos 2stroke 50cc moped, and the gasifier is a Imbert style, but with a much too big dimensions for the engine. It burned cubes of wood, roughly 1x1cm.
Tarred the iston soon.
You could have used a couple more hp in your hilly terrain but personal experiance is hard to beat.
Fantastic job. Back then there was little information on gasifying, especially over here. That must have been a great learning experience for you. ( who was working with you?) Did you have a plastic jar that was feeding oil into the cylinder— I didn’t see how you regulated the oil. What did you do with this project? Did you take it any further — like change the gear ratio, or change it to one wheel drive so that it didn’t require more power.? I have a 350 cc Honda sitting in the barn for 20 years that I have always though about making a 3 wheeler with wood gas. But unlike you I am a thinker and not a doer. TomC
Similar job situation in manufacturing up here. In the small town where I work, the city is slowly going broke, a good 10 big plants have moved on out, and the only thing that moved in during that time was a warehouse with maybe 50 jobs. Property taxes are being cranked up to compensate. Our 2017 federal budget is coming down next month, and what’s leaked out so far is more bad news for small business owners and real estate speculators. In short, more taxes to cover revenues that once were provided by the private sector, largely in manufacturing.
That’s the near future from the looks of it, more taxes to cover lost revenues. Capital gains taxes could be going up 50%, and there is talk of a mandatory application for your principal residence capital gains tax exemption, which used to be automatic. Some say this is setting the stage for a future tax on appreciation of your principal residence, even if it’s just a place that you call home.
Last year, I finally made the call that things are going to get even worse before they get better, and getting better is a long ways off. It may actually be that we are living in the in the final transition from an industrialized economy (in the West), to whatever comes next. If the federal budget pans out as per the leaks, it will confirm what I was fearing: more taxes that you can’t say no to, and heavier taxation on the necessities of life.
So, last year, I also decided to finally take action to offset these increases as much as it’s possible. I have a multi pronged strategy in effect now to offset every new tax and fee that is levied on my household, and amazingly, I believe I have actually REDUCED my total tax burden in 2016! Tax season is just around the corner, so I will know soon enough 
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This year, I hope to put gasification to work for me in further reducing not only my cost of living, but also providing an even deeper cut into my tax burden.
Hopefully, my job security holds out while I am making all these changes…
Tom, there was a nozzle on the intake that fed oil to the engine by its own suction.
The man you see in the video with me is my father. The most help l got was finantial, he bought me a old moped and all the materials for the project.
The heavy threeweel was later dumped, and converted back to a 2 wheel, and equipt with a G3k pellet gasifier. Later, it became a charoal powered moped,
The oilpump proved to be unsucsessful over long perions of time. The original oil nozzle was more sucessfull. But allinall, it ran (and still does) ruk good on charcoal.
That was great Kristijan, I looked at the other videosi too. I like the part where both of you were riding on the moped trike. I can tell you had a great life of learning growing up.
Very few young people get this kind of opportunity in their growing up now, all in the fantasy world of gaming and brainwashing on the computers. No hands on building things with our hands and tools and then going for a ride on it down the street on it. DOW
Bob
Back from Mother Earth news fair, 800 miles RT. Not as big a crowd as last year, and Saturday they set us (Martin Payne and me), up in the “food court” Nobody came there except to eat! Very poor crowd, and very noisy with 3 generators, and outside in the adjacent field,5 Catapillar earth movers and 2 dozers remodeling the land scape.
