Much possible, here is a Mako, the bigger truck-model.
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They were very brazen back then to mount in the front. Iâd be afraid of someone crashing into me, or forgetting my depth and rear ending them.
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True, but aerodinamics and cooler efficiency wise it shuld be the best solution.
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Iâve been planning a charcoal gasifier for my friendâs Renix computer Jeep Cherokee Laredo. Reactor in the back and filter in the front. Has the 4 Litre inline 6. Heâs contemplated cutting the back end of the roof off so that would make mounting it easier.
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Yes they where, easy mounting, cooling, short piping. But what do you think about this? Volvoâs popular charcoal, one wheel cart, mounted in front!!! This is taking it to the extremes, poor drivers, no power steering at that time.
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Wow! I never thought I would see anyone do THAT! TomC
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Thatâs no fun doing it the easy way. But I am starting to agree with the idea to make mine like a pickup bed. But I would loose the stealth look on the Jeep. II am going to keep trying to put it through the roof and back end hatch gate. Also it is a unibody frame.
Bob
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His is body on frame, itâs an 1989/90. It really would just be turning his Cherokee into a Gladiator/Comanche with 4 doors. Heâs got bigger problems to worry about like his driverâs door not latching shut.
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Giorgio; Thank you for the pictures of REAL gasifiers. We thought all Swedâs built shiny stainless steal. Most of tthese resembled more what WE are building over hear. Surprisingly, I recognized several of those as people who had shared some of the information we got in our early days of looking for anything GASIFIED. THAT Erik with the trailor was an early contributor, but I think I know him better from Max Gasmanâs post. Mike LaRossa use to speak of Erik often. TomC
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There is a light blue volvo 142, itâs one of my first builds. 
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How did you mount to the car? Off the rear bumper mounts?
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Göran, was that sone kind of fema build with no nozzles? I saw a primary air inlet into the hopper?
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Iâve mounted it on a tow bar beam, and two pieces of angle iron through the trunk space, welded at two shorter pieces between trunk floor and the wall behind backseat.
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Yes, after my first attempts i discovered the Fema, did much experimenting with it, evolved into some âhybrid Femaâ with one horizontal nozzle, and a restriction made from one of them plate rings from a woodstove, (spisringar frĂ„n en köksspis)
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Did you make any tar with it?
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It often made a LOT of tar, yellowish start up smoke, i learned a engine runs pretty good on tar, odd thing i never got the engine gummed up with this gasifier, probably because it often stopped a long way from home, and i had to re-install the carb to make it home. Runned more reliable with the updates, less tar, but the firetube got an odd âbanana shapeâ due to the single horizontal nozzle, which lead to the restriction ring to crack in four pieces.
I think the longest successful trip with this gasifier was some 30km, but i was happy, with a big smile everytime it ran.
Edit: if i remember correctly the start-up time with this gasifier (when it actually started) was around 20-30 mins 
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Haha, youâve been a true pioneer
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Thanks JO, yeah i actually tried to build my first gasifier when i was 12-13 years old
after iâve seen a woodgas volvo pv in tv-show: Grabbarna pĂ„ Fagerhult, if you remember that, itâs on SVT-play i belive.
That gasifier had a âgrateâ made of aluminum, that didnât hold up more than 5 minutes maybe, it produced a lot of smoke anyway
I think it was my first contacts with the internet that make this âwoodgas habitâ carry on. As many youngsters in Sweden i drove a: EPA, A-tractor, even that i tried to âgasifyâ but at that time there was much other things that occupied my time
I hope i can stand as a warning how bad this woodgas habit can end up anyway 
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