Ahhh, Air Conditioning
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That dude is living the dream, man.
And I fool did buy a new car with air conditioning….
What a redneck air conditioner!
They’ve got one of those Japanese student driver arrows on there.
The retrofitted taillight is the icing on the cake.
It’s weird, the green sticker on the back is actually called the Wakaba Mark, and is… wait… someone else already said that. On a brand new blog. I hate the internet.
with the economy and employment numbers in shambles, this might be an idea worth filing away for future use, as more people find themselves resorting to living in their cars, for financial reasons.
I could NOT agree more! I’m one payday away from being there myself….LOL!! Gotta laugh, otherwise I’d slash my wrists…
Actually have seen a similar thing done to over the road trucks several times to save fuel while the driver rests.
Port-o-john’s in the trunk.
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It’s a new line from Winnebago. Micro RV’n at it’s best. No support jacks, no leveling, no scotching, no towing, no problems! The Homermobile eat your heart out!
The generator, and the Aircon unit must have cost more than a replacment car! None-the-less fantastic effort.
@tudza
Yeah, that Japanese “newbie” sticker just ices the cake, I think.
This man needs needs needs a documentary of his life! I want to see his house, his yard, his….everything is probably so cool. Oh my god
The coolest thing is certainly the sound of this nine cylinder engined rig.
The sad thing is the generator. You can get an inverter that hooks to the battery for as low as 20 bucks, about 200 watts for that, and run the ac off of that, the gas savings alone being worth it, not to mention the additional drag on the aerodynamics.
@CenCal
I think you’re looking at all of it
ha ha, this is good idea.:D
Yeah I’d like to see you fit an inverter that can handle the amps from an A/C meant to cool a much larger space inside that engine compartment. Besides, the generator uses less gas than the engine. Less frictionaly losses since the generator doesn’t need the torque, especially one that small. Like an earlier post said, semi’s have started to use this same idea for running A/Cs so they don’t have to idle their large engines just for an A/C, computer, lights, TV or the reefer in the back.
Though an A/C that size would not be pleasant, yeah it’d get ice cold, but you would end up with humid cold air since the A/C is cooling the air faster than it can take the humidity out. Yuck!
Oh My God!!! I am from Panama, a country considered undeveloped, but you certainly have stupid guys up there!
Yes, I wanna see his toilet too!!!
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Know what? As one who’s paid the $1900 to fix a standard AC unit in a Honda civic, this solution make more sense than you would think. Screw those AC repair specialists! Retrofit and forget it! Bet it works better than the original too…
Only problem I see with this setup is that there is not place for vehicle owner to strap a jet assist takeoff unit when he wants to drag race….
Too bad the driver/a-c repair guy didn’t think to put the contraptions on the PASSENGER side, so the driver could see out the windows without havign such a blind spot when changing lanes…though, i doubt the driver really cares.
@Matt Kendrick
Yeah! But where are the holding tanks???
I don’t know where you’re from, but that sure looks like the passenger side to me!
lol This is genius! It probably costs less then actually getting it fixed too!
Freakin’ genius!
@Mo
probably english
@GabachoMike
Driver and passenger sides change depending on where you are. It looks like, from the location of the steering wheel on the car parked in front of this one, that the air conditioning is on what most of his area probably considers the passenger side.
I have actually seen a variation of this. Guy’s heater core was bad, so he put a generator in the truck bed to power a space heater in the cab.
@GabachoMike
I think he meant Driver’s Side, since there would be less of a blind spot directly behind the diver. Though, it looks like the A/C unit is doing a fairly good job of rendering the mirror useless regardless of on which side it would sit.
Do i need to say anything about this at all?
*crickets chirping*
I rest my case.
@Gothmogdabalrog
200 W AC unit? In what universe? Even my 25 liter cooler takes 50 W.
is that even legal????
wow just woww lol
Novice driver is clearly epic chindogu developer…
How did a wakaba mark, electrical generator, and window aircon unit all merge on a trashed Lincoln Continental? For your amusement……
rofl win
I dont know
I don’t know where you are getting your AC units from, but if they are drawing less then 200W(typical peak output) of a cheap little inverter.
I checked and my 5200btu(very SMALL) AC unit is 110v and draws 6.5 amps… thats simple math to get watts.. watts = voltage * current
so 110 * 6.5 = 715
therefor you would need 715 watts min for your inverter. likely you would need a 900-1000w inverter to run a small AC unit.
you can but a cheap 1500w genset for less then the cost of a decent 1000w inverter
still a cool picture though
Y does he get prazied 4 it but if i tryed it mum would kick my ass
Look on the LHS of the rear window …. what is that? A crutch? A bicycle handle? A baby seat … oh god I hope its not a baby seat?
“He babe, want to take a ride in my Lincoln? It’s a cooooool car.”
omg thats a good idea =|
@Gothmogdabalrog
LOL you really think that things battery will handle an home airconditioner? You realize that the battery would die after 5 minutes of use. Home ac’s drawn rediculous amounts of energy that a 12v battery wouldn’t be able to handle even with the engine running provided it runs lol
@Gothmogdabalrog
you’d need about 650 watts continuous to run a small portable AC, which translates to over 1800 watts starting current for the compressor.
You’d need at least a 1kW inverter, more if you go with modified sine (cheaper) and at 12v you’d be pulling over 50 Amps.
if he were to live in the car, instead of drive it, then the gas savings would be better used in the generator instead of the car itself. thus probably why he used it instead of an inverter, also: inverters require the car to idle while running causeing the engine oil to build up to a thickness over night causing more damage to the pistons in the long run, but using the generator for what it was intended for, a better option, depending on his intentions.
@lorolol
or japanese, indian, australian, south african, chinese, indonesian, sri-lankan, kenyan, egyptian, almost every pacific country, portugal and lots more
@Drew
That green sticker is actually used in Japan… Every driver that has less than one year driving experience has to have them on their vehicle, so no one is original.
Wait till you see the Stereo rig inside….
@Gothmogdabalrog
You cannot run a window unit ac on a 200w inverter. It would take at least 1500w and the car batter would last about 5 minutes before needing a charge.
@michael albitz
wow alot of people beat me to that comment lol
@Gothmogdabalrog
lol 200 Watts… good luck with that dude.
@Calmamity
Wonder what kind of gass mileage it gets!
Talk about ghetto shit right there, but I tell ya what if I had to live in my car I’d probably do that. Of course if you can afford the gas price might as well get an indoor storage unit and live in that hah.
It,s hard to guess what somebody would steal first, the generator or the a/c
This is from Adam Carolla’s Top Gear pilot
Does the car come with a beer fridge?
I will install a cooling tower on the roof, with a basin heating element, so as to have the ability to run the A/C in the really cold weather so that the condenser doesn’t freeze up. Also, I wonder, does this window packaged unit contain a 4 way reversing valve ? If so, this car has got a heat pump for the winter !