LEGO my V8 engine!
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Is there anything that a set of LEGO bricks can't create? In the last few months, we've seen a Camaro and a Mustang both built with nothing that wasn't manufactured by the LEGO corporation, and each of those creations featured a V8 engine and working transmission. While the entire process must be insanely difficult and time-consuming, it's the engine that truly separates these from mere toys. If an engine is really nothing more than an air pump, as some like to say, then here is a working V8 engine made entirely from LEGO parts. Following the build, it's easy to see how many transformations that this engine has gone through before the current pushrod version, which operates pretty well at an indicated 1,780 revolutions per minute. This is a fitting engine design, considering that it's slated to get dropped into a Dodge Challenger replica. Click past the break for a video of the engine in action. Thanks for the tip, Kyle!
Gallery: LEGO V8 Engine
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
PauloBecker 5:46PM (5/24/2008)
Awesome, I love the revving sound XD
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T4E 5:59PM (5/24/2008)
Absolutely astonishing! It would be great if this could be made in to an official kit.
Thanks for sharing!
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Michael 6:21PM (5/24/2008)
Gives a new meaning to the term "small block" lol
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Galley 6:31PM (5/24/2008)
How did they keep it from flying apart at those RPMs? I sure hope they didn't use glue.
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ugg.tryptophan 7:16PM (5/24/2008)
lego technix peices are surprisingly strong
nissanfreak87 6:55PM (5/24/2008)
wow!
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Cameron 7:01PM (5/24/2008)
Best. Toy. Ever.
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Duh10 8:16PM (5/24/2008)
This should be called the "My Stupid." Best toy ever? Are you people insane???
No the sound of that won't annoy any parents. Maybe GM could put this in an aveo? Bet it would get better than the anemic 34 mpg it gets now. What happened? Metros got 51 highway, my Dad owned several cars in the 80's that got 35 city, I own a 25 y.o. car that get 32. What a hose job.
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nissanfreak87 8:55PM (5/24/2008)
sheesh dude, chill out.
and thanks for adding your completely un-related comments as well
Lee Gibson 9:26PM (5/24/2008)
You did catch the part where there's no fuel in there, right?
In the immortal words of Squire Patsy: "It's only a model...."
Michael 10:46PM (5/24/2008)
How can "anemic" describe 34 miles per gallon? Now, you could say it had an anemic engine, but not mileage.
thedude3389 9:50PM (5/24/2008)
LMFAO LOL....WOW!!!! i LOVE that....i want one, NOW!!
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Kent Wenger 10:51PM (5/24/2008)
Imagine what that engine, and hybrid technology could do. We might be seeing these in the next gen prius. Or if they used the engine is say, the tata nano. You could expect and even cheaper price, and more power!!
icetraxx 12:38AM (5/25/2008)
Now he just needs to create a lego dyno for this engine.
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Yar 2:28AM (5/25/2008)
Waiting for the anti-OHV guys to come in here and say he should have built a more "technologically advanced" OHC motor so it could make more horses per liter...
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Dolemite 3:28AM (5/25/2008)
Hehe. Good one. +1
Rick 10:58AM (5/25/2008)
Yep. The museum piece is all nostalgic and all. But a model of a more advanced powerplant would get my vote.
almost Dr. G.. 10:28AM (5/25/2008)
thats f-ing amazing! i bet it gets to 60 faster than a smart car..
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Bill Coates 9:56AM (5/26/2008)
Awesome!!
It must be a chevy replica, did ya hear the "piston slap"? Needs an idle adjustment too! :)
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Infra 2:51PM (5/27/2008)
He DID make a DOHC engine - but it turns out that the pushrod performed "smoother" (in his words). If you look around his site he has examples and build instructions for both.
All you OHV haters need to shhh!!!
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