Not surprising, F1 cars have wood planks under the floor for exactly 30 years now, so wood definitively has its place on racing, even in the most expensive ones.
F1 started using wood planks as a sacrificial material, but they also use it as a standardized thickness material to regulate ride height. Excess wear can be penalized because you're "too low" but also it saves the car to some degree
car company called morgan, makes all hand built cars, some of them are woof. (correct me if I get anything wrong please, only read about them once in like 2016 so..)@@barbecuesauceeyebrows8254
@@barbecuesauceeyebrows8254Morgan, a small British sports car company, uses wood to create the body frames (not the chassis) on some models e.g the Plus Four & Plus Six
Morgan is a car manufacturer, and there was a myth that they used it to make the chassis of the cars out of wood, and they still use some wood on the cars. @@barbecuesauceeyebrows8254
You’re a bit wrong about the Lambo part. It’s carbon fibre with wood. So when you go over a bump or a rock, it will hit the wood instead of the carbon fibre
I thought the wood acts like the planks you find under F1 cars. Plus, if your car is low and generates quite the downforce, wouldn't having around the scraping parts a good idea?
Well since wood is an available and cheap resource, I think that you can just swap it out with a new one if it gets worn down. I mean they're "sacrificial" underchassis parts but at least they work, imo Hope that tidbit helps
The wood on f1 cars is because the car needs to be a certain height and the wood needs to be a certain thickness at the end of the race and if you won and its under thickness you are disqualified
Chris Harris put up a video a couple of years ago where he raced it in the Spa 24 Hrs. It's a mean machine for real. However, underneath it's a very different car from a "standard" Bentley Continental GT. The GT3 loses the AWD setup of the GT, loads of weight saving, a bunch of aero elements n most importantly the engine sits almost inside the cabin compared to the standard car where it sits almost on the front axle. It's limited to _just_ 500hp to conform to race regulations. They did however build an unrestricted monster version of it which raced n won at Pike's Peak n it made 750bhp n 1000nm of torque.
@@colinrussell2857not at all. He explained the obvious to everyone reason that cheap cars have wood aero: it's cheap. He didn't even attempt to explain why a 7000$ splitter would have wood. He never mentioned they use wood in F1. This is a useless short.
All plastics and composites are made from wood by adding a lot of extra steps to boil it down and put it back together. Wood construction is still faster for rapid prototypes than 3d printing ⏱
Wooden parts are replaceble. It used in parts and places with a lot of wear, usually at the lowest points. So after that place weares down, it's quickly repleced by new pice, instead of replacement of whole part.
There are also some motorsports series’s that use wood blocks called skid blocks underneath the car to enforce ground clearance limitations and how much you use downforce to enhance handling
Once i saw a time attack wrx build and the guy spent all his money to horsepower so he made a polycarbonate ( plastic glass) time attack bodykit and it was see thru and he ended up winning the competition. What a man
@@gamechip06 No, not really. PCB is a specific type of plastic. It's rigid, it's strong for it's thickness, it's easy to machine. Plastic contains a bajillion and one different variants.
Theres wooden planks under F1 cars that act both as a skid plate and a downforce restrictor. If an F1 car is suspected of having too much downforce, they can check by the wear of the wooden plank. If the wooden plank has worn down by a milimeter or more, that F1 car is disqualified from the race. Theres also blocks of metal that causes those sparks out of f1 cars
I’m not really sure exactly if that’s true, the planks under F1 cars are made of Permaglass which seems more like specialised fibreglass and resin material than wood.
I've worked on Nascar stock cars, Nascar uses wood splitters. They are 5/8" plywood and you can totally tell up close, but on camera you can't tell that the splitters are wood. Look at some crashes though and you'll notice the splitter is wood.
Former Engineer from an automotive racing team chiming in. We do indeed use wood for our aero, but mostly as an application to a proof of concept before moving to actual implementation. Its cheaper, faster to produce, and safer than fiberglass. Plastic is a decent alternative, but needs a lot of equipment just to get the desired weight and shape. As for the type of wood? Literally the same plywood you buy from a hardware store. Sometimes denser hardwood for weight distribution.
This is very true, I do commercial vinyl wrap and I've been in many motorsport garages and have wrapped some racecars from gt3 & gt4, nascar to rally cars. And yes a lot of them do have wooden splitters and diffusers. Obviously not nascar and gt since they trying to reduce weight. But cars like 370z and civics have often wooden parts to save costs.
I ran a plastic front splitter on my PRIUS. The only reason it isn't on right now is that it broke from a ramp in a parking garage in Chicago, and I'm trying to save money to repair my RX-7 so I can't buy a new one just yet. But it genuinely made a difference with how the car handled, and it was a $70 ABS front splitter
I like how he explained the wood on the factory splitter.. its Jabroc skid block material, made from beechwood in a similar way to plywood, its impregnated with high strength resin so this wood is much harder and more uniform in its wear than plywood you’d find at the hardware store. It acts as a wear sacrifical wear material.
Scuba tank boost on push button tune like nitrous. Never need to take it out to fill, hpa pumps run on 12 volts. 1uz loves it at 15 psi, almost 450 to wheels (head work, block rebuild as well)
Are you talking about a compressed air supercharged system? I seen a setup before, the guy had to have some crazy computer custom built to keep air fuel ratio from running to lean. I always remembed that and thought it was the coolest thing, just air it up and go racing. I always figured it must be hard to setup, as iv never seen or heard of another one.
i hoped that you will come up with the under floor of a F1 car in racing for example, these cars are also use a small woodplank on the floor...(not for aerodynamics but to protect the floor)
The wood on GT3 splitters (or super trofeo as you showed, there is a difference) are part of the skid blocks. The cars arent allowed to run below a certain ride height, so this lets the scrutineering teams check the wear. This is why porsche penske lost their win at watkins glen last year. It also protects the splitter from grinding on a track surface.
They use wood in in key areas of splitters and the floor that make the most contact with the ground. The wood protects the carbon from getting worn down and damaged. Cheaper to replace the wood over carbon fibre.
Wood is so that if they scrape the ground and damage happens they don’t have to buy a whole new carbon splitter and they can just replace the wood, it also can prevent friction from heating some essential components that could over heat the driver
I work on these vehicles. The wood is if it hits a rock or you bottom out it doesn't crack the carbon but instead the wood takes the impact and will have a gouge instead of breaking the carbon.
Its so your carbon fiber splitter doesnt get scratched and dinged up and the wood piece can be replaced when needed much cheaper. Learned about this a while ago and thought it was cool.
The wood is there due to regulations. Atleast in f1. Its there to act as a measuring point how much the car has had contact with the floor. And it is only allowed to be rubbed down to a certain thickness while driving. It is there to be sanded off by the road surface instead of the carbon fiber.
I thought the reason they use wood was that they can always replace the piece of wood after it gets beat up, because it was used as a layer of protection for the actual carbon fiber
I guess depositing graphite on CFRP front splitter would actually be better due to low coefficient of friction of graphite but I don't know how much it will cost and yes it needs to be replaced after some runs.
They have wood on the bottom of the carbon splitters to protect the carbon. The wood is changeable an prevents the carbon fibre from blowing up if it hits the floor!
Weird it Worked submission - saw a guy with a mustang convertible, had removed everything to do with the convertible and had installed a rollcage instead that he could button down a tarp version of a soft top to. Thought it was chopped but because it was designed as a convertible he actually kept all 4 solidly on the floor flying past competition @ rockford speedway. Made me rethink convertibles as racers, old school cars that wouldve been a rolling dog
Wood actually has a very high specific strength (that is, ratio of tensile strength to weight). Depending on the wood, it can be higher than aluminum, magnesium, titanium, and fiberglass-impregnated resin. The absolute strength may not be as high, but if it's strong enough for the application, it doesn't need to be arbitrarily stronger. And that's just raw wood. The wood on that splitter looked like plywood, which will be even stronger, at the cost of some weight. (I don't have specific strength data on plywood immediately available.)
There are Phenolic resin type of parts, it's wood/plastic resin. -especially 4 barrel carburetor spacers. They keep the carburetor cool without heat transferring from the intake manifold to the carburetor. Wood, a naturally grown material and has so many uses. Wood is awesome.
Same reason why Porsches use plastic for their front lips. Because it's a lot cheaper to replace than carbon fiber since it is effectively treated as a wear item.
its acutally out of wood so if it scrapes there wont be any plastic on the track, normally theyre replacable and its just the parts that touch the ground not the whole lip
If it’s wood then it’s most likely racing part cuz wood is better than carbon fiber cuz it’s gonna break and u can replace it fast and efficiently due to racing standards and needs
Wood has always been apart of cars. The Model T used so much wood that Henry Ford sought out his own forest and saw mills, which gave birth to Kingsford Charcoal.
A friend gave me a wood underfloor from a F3 car after the season was over. I was told it was made in Italy and that it was very expensive, and I didn't believe him at first because it looked just like a shiny piece of plywood. It ended up in my garage wall.
I made a custom mirror setup that moves my mirrors inside the car. Technically they're rv blindspot mirrors, and I installed them when I had a neck injury that restricted my ability to look back.
As far as economy aero parts; If it looks stupid and it works... it's not stupid. The Lambo splitter is most likely a wooden frame with carbon fiber around it, thus allowing the debris and rough roads to "bump" the wood and not the expensive woven carbon bonds.
The lip is not made of wood Its just a stand-off to keep you from messing up the lip on Curbs, corners, etc. Wood is a good choice because it is tough, cheap to replace. slides on pavement easily without catching, its strong, and isnt super loud when it scrapes. - lamborghini factory tech out of california .
I'm posting this here no judgment. At first car was an absolute bucket of a Ford Ranger it had a lot of rust problems so what I did was I went out and bought 2 roadsigns and replace the floorboards with 2 speed limit 75 signs
Didn't know my 1920 model A was so ahead of its time hell it's entire body is just wood with a metal skin can't wait for people to start using temp gauges for radiator caps again
Headlight shaped stickers on a racing motorcycle fairing. It's questionable because it was a public road and hella illegal. It works cause I couldn't figure out what was weird about it the first time it rode by
Fiberglass over it then sand with 400-600 and paint it for a nice finish. If you didn't already do that, it will look pristine. You might not really care, but hey, why not?
