J1000
Rising Sun Member
@DomOfTheDead @MonPetiteShoe and @On the RX are committed to possibly helping me out Saturday working on the EVJ80 
Anyone else want to come lend a hand feel free to post up or PM me.
In other news I have been working on a heater. I decided to just completely skip electric heat and waste heat at the moment and go straight to a fuel heater. Cheap chinese "diesel air heaters" are flooding the market after the German patent expired. They are basically a small combustion chamber where fuel is pushed in and a fan draws in air and it's burnt to create heat. They are very simple but very effective. They are becoming super popular in the vanlife/RV/EV community.
I have one small problem with them: they run on diesel. I hate the smell of diesel like most people and hate getting it on my hands, shoes, car, etc and having the smell linger forever. I definitely don't want that smell in or around my EV. Some of these heaters are advertised as "gasoline air heaters" but some internet detectives claim they are identical to the diesel version with just the computer settings adjusted slightly.
I took it one step further and am running mine on E85. E85 has a much more subtle smell than gasoline and doesn't linger because it's mostly alcohol. The exhaust is also much more pleasant. Also compared to gas E85 has about 40% less lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions and burns way cleaner so I think it's the most green way I can run one of these heaters.
Today I screwed around with the heater and was able to get it running reliably on E85 fuel.
The two things I did specifically to run E85:
-Added Top Lube to the fuel to provide lubrication to the pump
-Increased the minimum Hz from 1.6 to 2.4Hz and maximum from 5.6 to 6.5Hz
So far so good! The heater has been running today for hours without running a beat on the new settings keeping my garage at 60F. The heat coming out of the vents is 180-190F. If I still had my LEAF I would install one of these in it!
I got this heater which is towards the top end of the chinese quality: https://amzn.to/3oHkj7v
Top Lube: https://amzn.to/3JjsmiR
My test setup in the garage currently:
Now the next question is where in the Land Cruiser will I mount this thing?? I'm thinking maybe in the center console but it's already getting cramped in that area. I really am stumped as I want to keep all 7 seats. Maybe I will mount it in a rear quarter panel area where the subwoofer goes sometimes.
Anyone else want to come lend a hand feel free to post up or PM me.In other news I have been working on a heater. I decided to just completely skip electric heat and waste heat at the moment and go straight to a fuel heater. Cheap chinese "diesel air heaters" are flooding the market after the German patent expired. They are basically a small combustion chamber where fuel is pushed in and a fan draws in air and it's burnt to create heat. They are very simple but very effective. They are becoming super popular in the vanlife/RV/EV community.
I have one small problem with them: they run on diesel. I hate the smell of diesel like most people and hate getting it on my hands, shoes, car, etc and having the smell linger forever. I definitely don't want that smell in or around my EV. Some of these heaters are advertised as "gasoline air heaters" but some internet detectives claim they are identical to the diesel version with just the computer settings adjusted slightly.
I took it one step further and am running mine on E85. E85 has a much more subtle smell than gasoline and doesn't linger because it's mostly alcohol. The exhaust is also much more pleasant. Also compared to gas E85 has about 40% less lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions and burns way cleaner so I think it's the most green way I can run one of these heaters.
Today I screwed around with the heater and was able to get it running reliably on E85 fuel.
The two things I did specifically to run E85:
-Added Top Lube to the fuel to provide lubrication to the pump
-Increased the minimum Hz from 1.6 to 2.4Hz and maximum from 5.6 to 6.5Hz
So far so good! The heater has been running today for hours without running a beat on the new settings keeping my garage at 60F. The heat coming out of the vents is 180-190F. If I still had my LEAF I would install one of these in it!
I got this heater which is towards the top end of the chinese quality: https://amzn.to/3oHkj7v
Top Lube: https://amzn.to/3JjsmiR
My test setup in the garage currently:
Now the next question is where in the Land Cruiser will I mount this thing?? I'm thinking maybe in the center console but it's already getting cramped in that area. I really am stumped as I want to keep all 7 seats. Maybe I will mount it in a rear quarter panel area where the subwoofer goes sometimes.
