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Apologies for using KM/H if you prefer MPH! The reason for doing so was to have more definition at these very slow speeds as my GPS doesn't show decimals. Here's a conversion to MPH of the final cars in each class (spoilers below)…
Pure Lego Car – 7mph
Rocket Car – 23.4mph
RC motor Car – 26mph
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Congrats on 300K 🎉🎉🎉🎉 congratulations 🍾🎉🎊🎈
What about 6 wheels ???
Wow is very fa- *lego breaking noises*
I am not sure your rocket cars counted as 4 wheels touching the ground, pretty sure you accidentally made Lego airplanes.
LEGO-SSC
Craig Breedlove invoked, gotta go fast!
I did this in '88 and had great success…until that manhole cover got me. 😔
Right as the chute charge went off, the car smashed into a raised manhole cover and the whole thing exploded in perfect timing…my neighbors thought it was one of the coolest things they'd ever seen. 😎
Did you try to power 8 XL motors with a single Lego battery pack? Voltage drop on that would've likely been insane and I wouldn't be surprised if it would've been faster with less motors connected to it.
Lego rocket launch! Just saying 😉
All of those shoutouts to Craig Breedlove, the Bonneville Salt Flats, etc. made me think that if Lego was designing a Spirit of America set, they would need to contact you for advice. Also, all I could hear during your rocket car tests was the song about the SoA by The Beach Boys…
You really could have done better 😂
Bad Piggies rookie
The obvious answer is to buy a metal 3D printer and print metal LEGO parts to increase stiffness.
Lego FTW
Yoo congrats on 300k
I have a crazy idea:
Build the SRT tomahawk X VGT (the fastest gran turismo 7 car)
Try using mecano?
where did you get your jet engine?
Hi James, big fan of the channel. Here's an idea for something that seems to be right up your street in terms of techniques. Why not try making an RC plane which has an EDF/Prop for low speed flying and a rocket for high speed flying. I know you've got something like this in the past but the new twist I thought you could put on it would be to take inspiration of some military air craft (like the F111 and the F-14) which have a variable wing geometry design commonly called swing wing. This way you can have the wings out for low speed take off and landing and then sweep them back in flight for a really highspeed rocket assisted run.
Marxpek's lego record is 50.5 km/h.
Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfep-RpVm3U
Love that!
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Like any rocket vehicle, you need fins.
Love the idea of this. Also, JIMNY!
Congrats on 300k bro! 🎉❤
Just an idea, try putting rings on the bottom side of the chassis. Then running some fishing string as a guide to keep everything a little more consistent. However it will create drag. Your videos are awesome 🤙🏼.
There's a variant of the lego "spring engine" that is much better (lego 12799). It has more torque and more speed than the one that used