You Can Make An Engine Run With Wooden Pistons, But It Won't End Well
If you’ve ever wondered whether or not a car could run with wooden pistons, we’ve good news: a rather resourceful Russian YouTube channel called Garage 54 decided to give it a try. The answer? Yes, it works, but not for long.
The initial issue came when the beautifully crafted ash lumber pistons soaked up a load of oil and expanded, seizing the piston rings. After widening the grooves and reinstalling the pistons, the Vaz 2106’s 1.6-litre engine did briefly fire into life, but it wasn’t happy. It misfired badly and even spat out its dipstick. The host noted that they “did at one point sense a strong wooden odour.”
There’s a good reason why: the pistons had “burned straight through” after an estimated 15-20 seconds of running.
Now this highly important question has been answered, why not find out what happens when you replace your engine oil with cola…?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Wood anyone like to give this a go?
Stop
That joke was pine-ful.
Sure sounds like a walk in bark to do
Come over to this comment thread and STICK around to TREEt yourself to some puns
You stumped me there
Maybe this is what phil needs to run…
Only in Russia
Or you could make it run with a treadmill (ba-dum-tsss) okay I’ll leave now
Had the exact same problem when creating a wooden Disklok
#cheekydisklok
#CheekyDisklok
Still runs better than phil….
And the ‘you’re a resourceful moron’ award goes too:….. Garage 54
that was never gonna end well….maybe they couldnt see the wood for the trees…….
What a surprise, it wooden work…😂
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