lego,v8,engine,replica,small,block,horsepower Working Small Block V8 Engine made from LEGOs

Working Small Block V8 Engine made from LEGOs

posted by dw1117

1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 5698 views

tags: lego, v8, engine, replica, small, block, horsepower

A engine replica made out of LEGOs

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this could very well help America get off foreign oil

written by BillOreilly

| 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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small block!

double entendre FTW!

written by youmakekittymad

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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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.

written by Aemaeth

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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and on to foreign plastic??

written by 11774

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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

written by blutruth

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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That thing got a hemi?

written by lv_hunter | 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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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.

written by jimnms

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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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

written by southblvd

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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

written by Drachen_Jager | 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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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.

written by AeroMechanical | 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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>> ^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!

written by rottenseed

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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

written by dannym3141

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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maybe "functional V8 engine" instead?

written by calvados

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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

written by dannym3141

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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Maybe it runs off of vegetable juice.

written by davidraine

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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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.

written by messenger

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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

written by messenger

| 1 year 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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

written by omnistegan

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