*paints your 4x4 pink*

Adds stars, lightning bolts, flames and rainbow decals

Heeeey, just because its a barbiecar, doesn't mean its gotta be pink and covered in decals!

Well i had all these decals spare anyway...

Huh, wood fueled...

*Nod Nod* Wood Gassifiers can be used to fuel cars with very little modification, and with a simple switching system would be easy enough to flick between petrol and woodgas without any major interruption in power. Unfortunately you lose about a quarter of your engine power when switching to woodgas....but all you need is wood! No petrol!

And in a postapocalyptic wasteland that comes in usefull in a hurry...

Indeed, although it may come in handy IRL the rate fuel prices are getting. Not sure how well the fuzz/Ministry of Transport would take it...heh

Well you could check with them...

I've got notes on how to make alcohal, the largest supply of corn in the world, and there is a flex fuel truck down the road. I'm all set.

Daaaang, nice!

I was hoping to get me a second hand multifuel engine at some point...although now I'm split between that, and going ahead and making an actual woodgasifier for my car..

I've never even seen a wood gasifier before. Most modifications I know of are how to get more power from a diesel and how to make it louder. I can also make old gas powered cars louder too. But that is to easy because of the carborater.

Its some pretty oldschool tech. It was used a lot during WWII as petrol was scarse....

They even converted some armoured vehicles (And even rumours of Panzers!) to run on it http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/.....55/wq37dl4.jpg

Modifications to the engine aren't needed, however there is quite a bit of kit to carry which makes it somewhat impractical http://www.renewable-energy.ee/blog.....7/untitled.bmp http://www.techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/pix/ggp07/59woodtroop.jpg which is why it might be a bit of a squeeze in my vehicle. But it would be worth it...

I could fit one of those in the back of my truck. It can fit to all engines?

Petrol engines are just a simple case of feeding it in where the petrol goes. As I understand it, Diesels still require some diesel to be mixed in, so are a bit more complicated.

Oh. I'm not doing that to my truck. I'd have to take off the nice carborator I have on it.

Aren't there vehicles that run off of carbon monoxide?

I think that may be one of the primary fuels in Woodgas. according to wikipedia, its broken down as follows:

Nitrogen N2: 50.9%
Carbon monoxide CO: 27.0%
Hydrogen H2: 14.0%
Carbon dioxide CO2: 4.5%
Methane CH4: 3.0%
Oxygen O2: 0.6%.

But....but....I don't look good in bondage gear!

I dunno....nice curvy vixens do! But I aint onna those!

Nekkid Vixens then! They always look good! I'm sure the apocalypse will be OVERFLOWIN' with Nekkid Vixens!

How does a wood powered engine work?

And what a niche! Transportation. I'd love that job

Very simple version: When heated in a fire, wood gives off a gas called woodgas. This is usually burnt in the fire itself, but if you can keep it seperate from the fire (Say, heating some wood in a container in a fire) and pipe the gas off, cool it down a bit, you can actually feed it directly into an unmodified engine instead of petrol/gasoline. You lose about 20% of the engines power, and if you set it up wrong you can cause the engine to get clogged up pretty bad, but done right its as good as running on pure petrol, but fuel is everywhere! Unfortunately it is a sizable lump of cargo space you lose, and you need to keep the fire stoked...

Also, you need actual spark plugs in the engine. Diesels can run on it too, but as they lack spark plugs you do need a little bit of diesel mixed in with the woodgas to get the fuel to ignite. This requires significant modification to the engine/fuel lines which can be quite complicated and time consuming to switch back to Diesel only.

Its a bit of a toss up between the versitility of Diesel (Good mileage, use cooking oil, reliability) and being able to run a car off trees...