Splinter - The Wooden SuperCar

[jeepers2655]

nice work.......termite proof? totally suck in a wreck unless the epoxy would strengthen it like steel .......but fiberglass breaks also. 1 of a kind!

[zonkozonko]

British Marcos Mantis sports cars had plywood chassis.

[MrFourfastfins]

looks like they just used hemp or bamboo cloth instead of carbon or glass. maybe some other plant fiber cloth I dont know about. They sometimes use bamboo or hemp for surfboards. Wood fibers have some awsome physical properties from what Ive heard.



[DTFreshass]

How much more pointless could people get ? A wooden car ? com'on now !

[dafiltafish]

@DTFreshass now dont get your panties in a bunch, it is not carved, but is a mesh similar to carbon fiber. it is also covered in epoxy for strength. it would have a similar weight to a ferrari gto in all honesty.

[W00tMUKI]

wait a sec... key made of wood too ?

[1470cool]

Looks comfy inside.... or not.... lol

[boppa1231]

front of a zonda and the back of a lamborgini...

[granddaddyjackarse]

wooden car wooden go! :)

[gregson66]

all i noticed about this vid is how funny americans pronounce the word detail lol its like the e doesnt even exsist. D'tail lol

[CurlineChild]

@gregson66 Not all Americans pronounce it that way.

[rbuss1956]

@gregson66 Seems to me like the T has been left out as well, splin'er, in'eres'ing. Repeat after me, twenty splinters at the international center.

[ramair1969]

Wood was used in the Z06 Corvette Floor Pans in starting in 2001

[arand4]

not carbon fiber, not glass fiber but wood fiber

[eltsu56]

LOL NICE SEATS!!!! HAAHAAAHAA

[datzfast]

one of a kind gimmick.

[MaKusn]

lol

[JASONZx6R]

that really is a beautiful car. did they actually ever test drive it? I heard it was to proove that wood is just as strong if not stronger than alot of the metals that go into car production. even if not, its stil bad azz

[ChaseSpeer]

Make sure the exhaust isn't running rich like a rotary

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

cigarretes not be allowed 

[dfmodels1]

i like this one

[Karl23extreme]

million dollars gone if termites arrive.

[maikeru01]

it looks like a roach

[565Customz]

i have NEVER seen this car move......can someone drive the damn thing

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 "with burn scares"

You're running scared.cluck cluck cluck

Bwahahaha!

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 Quote "Welcome to my block list."

LOL

The last resort of those who have been shown up and OWNED. Finally googled Wooden chassis did you? How embarrassing you can't refute any of my arguments. Repeating thousands of wooden aircraft, boats and numerous cars with wooden chassis (in the 1900's that was standard) and bodies (Marcos, Trianne 111, Africar) don't catch fire. With Fibreglass the number not catching fire is in the 100s of thousands Lotus Lancair etc

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 Dude, have you even bothered to actually read about those Fiberglass and Wooden boats, air craft and cars? They have wood and fiberglass in the engine bay. Lotus, Riva's, Lancairs etc etc

The headers are the only part that will produce more than 300°F and if that is CERAMIC TAPE WRAPPED IT'S SORTED

The BLOCK is water cooled temp 240F The OIL pan might reach 400F. If it's OVER 700F your engine is DEAD.

And you're an engine builder?

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 "Wooden boats, planes, and cars all catch on fire. Its the principle reason they don't use wood in them anymore" Wrong. COST is why.

You really like looking stupid don't you. Riva Boats ONE example of HUNDREDS of wooden reproduction inboards being built. Experimental Aircraft Assn website Hundreds of wooden planes being built from plans and kits.

Plus explain how come all those FLAMMABLE as wood fiberglass planes, cars and boats are being built. You are a know nothing Fuckwit

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 "A wooden car is a fire trap. BWAHAHAHAHA! Tell Marsh and Costin Marcos (look it up)

Are fiberglass bodied cars fire traps? LOL.

Tell de Havilland with the Mosquito. Do wooden planes all catch fire when they go fast?

Bwahahaha

Keep digging you only making the hole you are in deeper.

Nice to see you won't even look at the examples of wooden cars boats and planes I've shown you none of which catch fire.

How's the test block of wood on your engines intake? Bwahaha

[indonippon]

I really love wood but this thing is horrid! I mean cmon cane seats?! WTF is that? Was this designed for a hippy racing driver or something? The wooden wheel also sucked! An interior with suede(dark blue) and normal momo steering wheels and decent looking wheels would have made it more tasteful in my opinion. itsTypical yankee overkill not being racist or anything! cheers!!

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 "They catch fire all the time If you had any experience with racing you would know this"

Bwahahahahaha

Liar liar cars "not" on fire

[grecon001]

@fizzguts "Bwahahahaha"- Do you know how much easier it is to type LOL. Spelling out the laughter is weird, not to mention obnoxious. I actually take your side of the argument here but your creepy laughter has made me invision you as a pretencious bald man, about 45 lbs overwheight,early forties, insecure with rickets.

[fizzguts]

@grecon001 "Spelling out the laughter is..... obnoxious" Really!! You figured that out all by yourself!!? Did you not think I might do it to PISS OFF ignorant knuckle dragging dickwads who post "wow it will catch fire" because what they know about engine temperatures & the flammability of wood you could write on match stick. Give me strength. This is not fucking Sesame St. So Mr Health & Safety, go back to lining up your pencils & stop being pretentious (SPL) LOL .

[grecon001]

@fizzguts You posting pages of comments correcting people who corrolate fire with wood, and I'm pretencious. BTW, Thank you for TAKING MY ADVICE AND USING LOL. Just lettin ya know that you... You're THAT guy. bozo

[fizzguts]

@grecon001

And what are you?

Easy a pretentious, SPELLING WRONG TWICE BWAHAHAHA , wanker, posting not about the topic but how the posts style upsets you.

"I agree with you but you're nasty" Oh dear, how sad, never mind. Get a life for fucks sake, rereading pages of posts to comment of style is PATHETIC, cretins like you deserve to be slammed

[grecon001]

@fizzguts Again you're posting about my comment style and saying I should be slammed.... FOR POSTING ABOUT YOUR COMMENT STYLE.  Idiot! I'm slamming you already. I am doing to cretans (SPL) what you say should be done. It's just that YOU are the cretan. your a walkin talkin contradiction. Look, I know it must be hard since your sister left you, but you'll meet another woman. Don't sit around bein mad at dumb people on the web. I'm the only asshole that agreed with you and you hate me. ;(

[grecon001]

@fizzguts

You know what? I'm sorry. I'm just bored and you were an easy target.

Don't take it personal.

[fizzguts]

@grecon001 Your spelling cretin, cretan proves you are a cretin Bwahahahaha! This is so much fun but don't take it personally(spl). Bwahahahaha!

[grecon001]

@fizzguts ok. I have spell check you know, it's part of Firefox, just giving you the ammo you need to help enstill a little confidense in your life. You just seem so sad an pathetic I didn't want you goin and comitting suicide or somethin.

[fizzguts]

@grecon001 "I have spell check you know"

"an" "goin" "wich" "priveledged"

But you can't work it? Bwahahahahahahaha!

What I like is you are so wound up by my insults, you have to post 3 times to my 1

You have been owned. Bwahahahaha!

[grecon001]

@fizzguts I spelled thise wrong on porpose so you can feel like you win for once in life. You had no insults. you only admit to being bald insecure with rickets while correcting my spelling, the argument loser always take when they have nothiong. Have fun pickin through the spelling errs.

[grecon001]

@fizzguts Thank you for being here to tell the rest of the world how to think and spell. What would we ever do without wonderful insight from the great ones, who take it upon themselves to go and so selflessly identify the temperatures at wich various materials burn? I feel so priveledged (as should everyone) to receive your condescending words of wisdom, and spelling lessons. Thank you!

[grecon001]

@fizzguts The best part of this is that you couldn't refute my description of you. Maybe a little rogain can help you with that confidence issue you have.

[grecon001]

@fizzguts You do realize that you corrected my spelling of the word, whilst calling me pretencious. I cant keep the pecils lined up next to eachother... all that wood ya know...it's kind of a fire hazzard. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Tell me did that get your goat? My wild obnoxious laughter? Did it piss you off and ruin your day? of course not. Did it make you see things my way? Noooo. Dude, really, work on your communication skills or your just a dick with a keyboard.

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 "Wooden parts WILL catch fire if exposed to high temp. The same goes for rubber hoses, and brake fluid, and fiberglass. They catch fire all the time.""The splinter WILL catch on fire if driven fast for more than a few seconds"

There fore BY YOUR OWN WORDS all race cars will catch fire if driven face for a few seconds because wood = rubber =fiberglass.

So pin head explain WHY don't all race cars, Hydroplanes, Lotus 7 series 4, Marcos catch fire as soon as they are driven fast.

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 "Wood in racing, now I know your full of shit. "

So you've never heard of, a wooden chassis Marcos sports car, a Lotus 7 series 4, a GP hydroplane with a supercharged methanol burning big block on wooden engine bearers in a PLYWOOD hull. You don't understand the flammability of wood is the same as rubber hoses, brake fluid, fiber glass etc.

You must build engines by touch only as you are obviously blind as well as terminally ignorant.

Ceramic tape the headers. SORTED.

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 Considering i have 30 years building, driving and racing fiberglass with plywood bulkheads timber inserts etc and have never had or seen fiberglass panels or grp bonnets or rubber hoses or plastic components or brake fluid catch fire from engine heat I'd say you are making things up. I have seen gasolene leaks and backfires which set fire to the fuel that then burnt out the car.

Wood is no different to grp etc for flammability. Ceramic tape the headers. SORTED.

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 "the Designer himself said if the car is driven at high speed it runs the risk of catching fire" BULLSHIT As I said there were and still are hundreds of high performance engines running in wooden hulls as well as a number of wooden chassised race and road cars such as the early Marcos and they don't catch fire. Add that to the thousands of kit and race cars using isophtalic (flammable) fiberglass panels that DON'T catch fire every day. Your statement was complete bollocks.

[fizzguts]

@dave97202 "if the engine block generates too much heat it will cause the body to combust." OH OF COURSE all those WOODEN ChrisCraft etc boats with WOODEN engine covers, WOODEN hatchs etc back in the 1950s and 60's running big arse V8's yep as soon as they turned the engine on they ALL caught fire.

Sigh. The builder of splinter is an engineering graduate not some mouth breathing pizza delivery driver chowder head like you. Ventilation and radiation effects all taken care of.

[LLschoolJ2]

@dave97202 no look at the back theres a thing that looks like a stripe that takes in cold air to the egsuast they ran out the top

[chrisandnicky]

did u hear about the wooden car??

it wooden go!

[sidvr99]

will it move?

[JayOhEnEnWhyEx]

im hoping the engine isnt wooden...im also hoping nobody thinks im serious

[IT1997139]

if this car`s engine starts to burn. i think the whole car is a goner

[fredroul]

Compared to steel... wood can be easily machined in your own backward using your own hands with your own tools... its easy for any carpenter with any structural knowledge to build a nice strong lightweight car... at work people and build your dream with your own hands... ; )

[fro5t1]

1:13... looks very much like carbon to me..

[Spazum888]

its probly weaved just like carbon.

[101ThatGuy101]

Your a noob then

[Spazum888]

STFU you troll. god damn! look up Joe Harmon's Splinter

the video of him standing by the truck

he says he uses wood composite, they just replace the carbonfiber with wood...

101thatguy101 your a noob. get your facts before you go trolling, dumbass

[101ThatGuy101]

OMG your such a noob..look at you

[m4xwellmurd3r]

that's cause they weaved the wood to look like it. for both strength and weight reasons.

[harmanharmanharman08]

thats hot

[dirtjumperjad]

the word splinter kinda looks like sphincter on the front :S

[Garrrske]

I saw this in the making as a PA on a shoot for Discovery Channel. It's really bad ass.

[achicklol]

Lets just hope no termites find it! lawls.

[smoof60]

some people i know, know joe harmon, the guy that built it

[cm250fine]

Fuck I have a woody for that car

[BackstrokeOfTheWest]

Lol'd at the lawn chairs inside. But yeah, it's a nice looking car. How fast is it supposed to go?

[AzoloZairon]

According to the web:

The world's first wooden supercar has been unveiled - and it's faster than a Porsche or a Lamborghini.

The 'Splinter' car can turn out a whopping 700bhp from its twin supercharged, 4.6litre V8 engine - almost 300bhp more than a Porsche 911.

And with a top speed of a staggering 240mph, it will leave the Porsche or even the brand new Lamborghini Revanton trailing in its wake.

[ImTheMostViewed]

Yet no one has seen it drive?

There's no video of it even being on....

[yanzodadon]

the chassis isn't made of wood right?

[AzoloZairon]

Everythin is made out of wood

[marcomisplaced]

gave me a woodie

[TheRandomness03]

i lold.

[PlusleTG]

looks like it has sum lambo in it

[Preytor13]

that's so dope

[1212sman]

Been kind of following this thing's production; it was basically some guy's doctorate thesis in engineering. It's a laminated monocoque &, yes, it is made entirely out of many different kinds of wood. Drivetrain is a Cadillac Northstar with a Getrag transaxle, with the heads mounted upside-down & twin blowers!

[AnonymoussourceL0L]

@1212sman Wasn't it also a college project?

[copnis]

don't think it wooden go anywere,

[D413373R]

looks awsome

[dcool83]

nice car

[fiveoscar]

World's fastest bonfire.

[hazem203]

hahaha

[nate4life1010]

Lmao

[anh7hu0ng3m]

u got that right. hope it isn't fragile tho.

[GovernmentGoneWild]

badass