Meanwhile, in Finland: A wood-powered El Camino! "El Kamina - häkäpönttöauto"

[Pretiacruento]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdPkrghUZM[/media]
Oh Finland, you're so awesome

[editline]16th April 2011[/editline]

We need a finnish translator over here, please!

[nikomo]

Just sent a text message to a service allows you to check up info about a car, its owner etc. by the registration plate.

It's a Chevrolet El Camino Pickup CW80H/297. 56kW (pretty sure that's with the old standard engine), it was last inspected on 21.6.2010, the owner's name is Juha Petri Sipilä and he lives in Kempele.

[editline]16th April 2011[/editline]

I like how I checked the info without watching the video and it's all there at the end of the video.

[Komppu]

At least i can understand this.

And you cant.

[genyus]

is that a fucking nuclear reactor?!

[-ZeeBo-]

Nice engineering.

[Irma]

[QUOTE=genyus;29224153]is that a fucking nuclear reactor?![/QUOTE]

Yes. Nuclear reactors work with wood nowadays.

[Awesomecaek]

Wood gas combustion engines were already used decades ago, but this is pretty cool, nonetheless.

[TuNeD!]

Okay, I'm from Finland, but I'm too tired to translate the whole shabang, so I'll just write down the stuff that is written on 2:35.

Model:
Chevrolet El Camino
Manufacturing year 1987

Engine:
350 Cid (5,7l)

Fuel:
wood or gasoline

Fuel consumption:
Wood aprox 40kg/100km

Fuel cost:
around 2€/100km

Range:
Aprox 200km per tank
(counting the wood you can carry with you 600km)

Top speed:
140km/h

horsepower on wood gas:
80Hv

Carburetor apparatus: (Don't know if translated right)
Katera Steel Oy 2007
(Adapted from Vesa Mikko's manual [url]www.ekomobiili.fi[/url])

Emissions:
CO 0,176%
HC 48ppm

Electrical controls of the engine:
Motec M800
(blaablaablaa too technical, don't know how to translate :(. )

Project team:
Ville säynäjäkangas
Esa Kuitula
Juha Sipilä

Thanks to:
Vesa Mikkonen
Staff of A1 Autoväri
Mike Anttila
Arto Lehtonen
Jani Piippo
Katera Steel Oy
CCM-Power Oy
Kimmo Takarautio

Presentation video by:
Timo Sipilä
Petteri Stavén

Music by:
Petteri Meskus

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Okay that's it, alot of the text was reaaaallly technical stuff about cars which I have very very little experience and knowledge, but I did the best I could and if there's someone else who can translate better than me, then do it.

[Van-man]

Ah yes, woodgas generators coupled up to a almost ordinary engine.
Was commonly used in WW2 by farmers, emergency services and rich people in Europe.
Poor people had to walk or ride a woodgas powered bus.

[nikomo]

[QUOTE=Combine 177;29223073]At least i can understand this.

And you cant.[/QUOTE]
Mm, mä ymmärrän.

[Pretiacruento]

That wood chamber on the flatbed looks really heavy and anti-aerodynamic... I wonder how much does that car weigh when carrying a full load of wood

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;29233772]That wood chamber on the flatbed looks really heavy and anti-aerodynamic... I wonder how much does that car weigh when carrying a full load of wood[/QUOTE]

According to the stats

Fuel consumption:
Wood approx 40kg/100km

Range:
Approx 200km per tank

That means that one fill of wood weights 80kg.
And as it's a cylinder, it doesn't have much air resistance.

[Schmaaa]

Someone should start up a company that makes and sells these. They would become rich as fuck, especially since everyone hates buying gas at these prices.