Insane turbo barrel makes 30+ psi boost on FIREWOOD

Episode 6 is now out, we put it on the roof of a car and drove around! Click the link here and check it out! https://youtu.be/vC_aZTb70u0

The best part about making something dangerous is when everyone starts running away laughing nervously 😂

Love that the main takeaway from this was "we need a bigger boost gauge"

Their tool safety is incredible. Those safety flip-flops are the bomb!

"We need a bigger boost gauge." Is 100% the attitude we all need! Brilliant!

These turbo-burns are fun to watch, and I'd love to see it taken to the next level of backyard engineering. For example, partially submerge the tank or weld on some tubes to the tank and pump water through. Use the heated water to rapidly heat a swimming pool. Or use the exhaust gasses to fill a hot air balloon. Or go more of a technical route and do some analysis on the exhaust gas composition. Or build a mechanical PID closed loop system using a BOV / wastegate, and throttle body to get the system to maintain a steady boost that you can select. Or put it on wheels, add basic steering with an RC car servo and get the thing driving under its own power. Or add an oil cooler and pipe the intake to draw air through the cooler so that the system is able to maintain better oil temps Or... you know, the grand finale, add a 100 shot of Nitrous

That’s wild. At 30psi it is like a supercharged forge. Get some EGT gauge happening for the turbo and inside the furnace. Be cool to know how hot the fire gets.

Throttle should be setup to dump boost to the open air, not restrict that going to burner. Instead of hammering the thing with excessive backpressure, you drop the overall system pressure feedback to the burn chamber. Make a Y or T junction somewhere on the main boost line from the turbo, and stick the throttle on a branch from that to vent. This is because you're not able to control fuel in this setup, so instead you control the fresh air being introduced. If it's done right, it should be able to do some pretty smooth throttle control. Also that compressed air being vented will be rather hot too, so direct it accordingly. Also if you're clever, design internal burners to use the pressurized boost air. The flame front will form from the fresh air coming into the atmosphere of heated flammable gas. If you ask somebody who works on stuff like coal fired powerplant burners, they may be able to explain it better. Still room to optimize it if you want to. Or just ignore random internet person suggestions, yet the advice is out there.

“3 pounds, 5 pounds!….*needle passes 25 PSI of boost*” and the the scream lmao 🤣

Watching the guys run for cover reminded me of the Ford Dorset engines. I started my 40 years at Ford UK Product Development at Dunton in Environmental Test where we did cold start tests in four big cold rooms that would go down to -40° (-40° is the crossover point for fahrenheit and centigrade). Between tests the engines, which were on pallets so we could eight in each cold room, were run up for at least an hour to evaporate any fuel that had got into the oil while cranking. The oil was changed between every test as well. The Dorset engines could get so hot that they would start to run on oil vapour that was piped to the inlet manifold from the engine breather. With nothing to control engine speed they would run away and eventually explode! We had one brave lad who would run in and pull off the breather pipe, but most of us ran for cover. The runup room was lined with sound proofing and I can still see bits of crankcase embedded in the wall, and an almighty mess that we had to clean up. This was in the mid 70s so we didn't all have phones to record these events, and having a camera onsite was a sackable offence anyway.

Safety Flipflops like a Boss!

These are rooky numbers. When my dad sneezes, he produces at least 69+ psi of boost.

Now this is what I was looking for about 11 years ago, I had a wood furnace with an "electric supercharger" that regulated the input air to control heat output. Interesting thing, but I'm more of a turbo guy, but nobody had done that kind of swap yet. Good job guys, Turbo wood stove is a win in my book lol

We just hit 10,000 subs! You idiots are no more responsible than us!!! <3 EPISODE 3 is now out! We have kitted out the barrel with an ecu, a bunch of sensors and NITROUS! Click here https://youtu.be/a-UYZvR5iIY

Feed some fresh air directly from the compressor to the exhaust turbine to cool things down, and it should survive a bit longer. (That's how they do it in jet engines.)

You need to control drive pressure. Venting the vessel's internal pressure before the turbo exhaust. Choking the air charge side will destroy the turbo oil seals rapidly. You can gain more control by fabing up a spring-loaded vent cap on the charge pipe. Set the spring tension to be fully open at 1.5bar. Allowing the charge air to vent to the atmosphere at a regulated pressure. This will stop it from running away. If you turned it into a boiler with steady water flow circulating through it, you'll have stable temps and a pile of steam that could used to warm a house, a pool/tub or power a steam turbine genset.

That tiny bit of extra air making an extra 25+psi of boost is a great example of how turbos cars drive too, once you get the turbo rolling you can be giving very little throttle and still make a lot of power.

Wonder what it would do if you put coal instead of wood? 😂 Great fun though as is!

Episode 5 is out now and is by far the best one yet. Click the link here!! (Electronic wastegate and we build a flamethrower) https://youtube.com/watch?v=ujvFu_6DVG0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

That's the funniest thing all week so far. You guys are ridiculous haha