Comments for "Working Small Block V8 Engine made from LEGOs" Video at VideoSift.com

By BillOreilly

BillOreilly (http://www.videosift.com/member/BillOreilly) — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:06:49 -0700

this could very well help America get off foreign oil

By youmakekittymad

youmakekittymad (http://www.videosift.com/member/youmakekittymad) — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:34:55 -0700

small block!

double entendre FTW!

By Aemaeth

Aemaeth (http://www.videosift.com/member/Aemaeth) — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:48:24 -0700

This is a cool video, but how is it working if there's no combustion in the internal combustion engine? Oh well, it's a close replica, I guess.

By 11774

11774 (http://www.videosift.com/member/11774) — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:12:02 -0700

and on to foreign plastic??

By blutruth

blutruth (http://www.videosift.com/member/blutruth) — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:02:42 -0700

Anyone who doesn't upvote this at least 10 times must be insane. Or blind. Or blindly insane.

By lv_hunter

lv_hunter (http://www.videosift.com/member/lv_hunter) — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:06:27 -0700

That thing got a hemi?

By jimnms

jimnms (http://www.videosift.com/member/jimnms) — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:40:00 -0700

I wonder if it has working cylinders and valves. Also that's a lot of fast moving plastic parts, what keeps the plastic from melting due to friction.

By southblvd

southblvd (http://www.videosift.com/member/southblvd) — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:22:28 -0700

It's running on compressed air, if I'm not mistaken.

http://jalopnik.com/391187/lego-maniac-blows-minds-with-1440-rpm-mindstorms-v8-lego-engine

By Drachen_Jager

Drachen_Jager (http://www.videosift.com/member/Drachen_Jager) — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:56:54 -0700

It's not a "working" V8 if it has to be powered externally. A "working" V8 powers OTHER things.

By AeroMechanical

AeroMechanical (http://www.videosift.com/member/AeroMechanical) — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:16:32 -0700

I would like to see a little more about how the internals work. Does it have valves that are timed to drive the pistons? Are the pistons in fact individually driven by compressed air? In that case, getting the timing right would be impressive. If the air is just driving a flywheel that turns the drive shaft with it, that isn't quite so cool. Still cool though, just not quite so cool.

If he could connect it to some CO2 cartridges controlled by a throttle, and then put it into a car (a Lotus 49 please) so the whole thing was self-contained, THAT would be cool.

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://douchebag.videosift.com) — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:35:21 -0700

>> ^blutruth:
Anyone who doesn't upvote this at least 10 times must be insane. Or blind. Or blindly insane.

We don't all have 10 sock puppet accounts like you blutruth...or should I say, BLANKFIST!

By dannym3141

dannym3141 (http://www.videosift.com/member/dannym3141) — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:20:58 -0700

Disappointing, i was expecting a working v8 engine. Maybe the title was a bit misleading.

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:52:11 -0700

maybe "functional V8 engine" instead?

By dannym3141

dannym3141 (http://www.videosift.com/member/dannym3141) — Sat, 24 May 2008 09:59:11 -0700

even then... just a replica really with moving parts

By davidraine

davidraine (http://www.videosift.com/member/davidraine) — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:46:08 -0700

Maybe it runs off of vegetable juice.

By messenger

messenger (http://www.videosift.com/member/messenger) — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:01:40 -0700

And the filming was horrible. The "engine" doesn't do anything, so the cameraman just moved all around while all I wanted to see was the "tachometer" when it sounded like it was going faster. Disappointment on top of poor quality = downvote.

By messenger

messenger (http://www.videosift.com/member/messenger) — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:03:02 -0700

(Well, it was supposed to be a downvote but I missed. Downvote for too much beer.)

By omnistegan

omnistegan (http://www.videosift.com/member/omnistegan) — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:16:07 -0700

http://www.nicjasno.com/　explains alot about these engines, including plans and forums and the like. They are pnumatic engines.

By laura

laura (http://www.videosift.com/member/laura) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:26:41 -0700

>> ^YouMakeKittyMad:
small block!

double entendre FTW!

That comment reeks of intelligence! I love you already. lol