Building the FASTEST LEGO Car

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

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  • @Project-Air
    @Project-Air  Год назад +420

    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
    Thanks for watching! Will be back soon with another video (hopefully within the month) ☺

    • @conanobrien1
      @conanobrien1 Год назад +346

      The 95% of world population prefers KM/H. Why would you need to apologize?

    • @weld4200
      @weld4200 Год назад +6

      Hey man ..i love ur videos ...i just want to say 1 thing that jarrd my nerves about this ..U CHEATEDD ...I CANNOT CREATE YOUR OWN LEGO BRICKS ..U HAVE TO USE WHAT LEGGO HAS GIVEN YOU ....ANYBODY IN THE WORLD OF LEGGO KNOWS THIS ....I HEREBY CALL FOR A REDOO.

    • @srtgrayfrance
      @srtgrayfrance Год назад +68

      What you should apologise for is writing kp/h: kilometres per per hour? Come on man, you know better then that! :)

    • @pusnirizda5481
      @pusnirizda5481 Год назад +102

      Don't apologize/ mph for a burger-per-sqare-bananas countries. Real humans use km/h.

    • @Giuliana-w1f
      @Giuliana-w1f Год назад +50

      ​@@conanobrien1 yeah, youtube channels that use only imperial without metric conversions (especially for natively metric measurements) should apologize

  • @ArsonalTech
    @ArsonalTech Год назад +368

    I bet if he and Brick Technology teamed up they’d make something absolutely insane

  • @MarijnRoorda
    @MarijnRoorda Год назад +877

    Perhaps you could partner up with someone who is more versed in building with technic lego. For starters i could see a use in suspension to offset the bumpy roads you use, and a wider track for higher stability. And there are much better wheels available in Lego. And perhaps a gym floor would be better suited as those are typically fairly large and exceptionally flat and smooth. A indoor location would also rule out weather conditions.

    • @gv100_blitz
      @gv100_blitz Год назад +45

      Can’t see a gym allowing rockets but for wheel drivin testing that’s a good idea

    • @dolan-duk
      @dolan-duk Год назад +54

      Maybe a collab with the Brick Technology channel or Half-asleep Chris?

    • @Cmdrbzrd
      @Cmdrbzrd Год назад +31

      I agree, I was internally screaming about how he was neglecting the suspension, just go kart-like fixed wheels.

    • @LucasDynamics
      @LucasDynamics Год назад +4

      I would help if help is needed...

    • @paulbrouyere1735
      @paulbrouyere1735 Год назад +5

      Well, you definitely managed to make me laugh. Is it possible LEGO designed it’s motors for kids in such way that the parents don’t throw the whole kit in the bin after one time use?😂

  • @OfficiallySnek
    @OfficiallySnek Год назад +543

    I bet you could find a way to seal off the floor of the car and add a LEGO fan to make the car go even faster

  • @toms2oo8
    @toms2oo8 Год назад +250

    Honestly would have liked to see a bit more restrictions/rules as it does seem like you could have just stuck a lego brick to your existing rc car at that point and called it a lego car by how some of the final ones were propelled. It seemed less about optimising the lego part and more about building the most basic chassis and sticking a rocket on it.

    • @dehanbadenhorst1398
      @dehanbadenhorst1398 Год назад +7

      I agree

    • @dobrent
      @dobrent Год назад +14

      Agree, I think he gave up early. Like with the submarine.

    • @akira8817
      @akira8817 Год назад +6

      Also with his fastest rc plane video, he just sticks a rocket on it. The fastest lego car should mean a car made only with lego

    • @Ziegeri
      @Ziegeri Год назад +1

      It won't be much faster with just legos, no matter what you do, they are plastic and will melt and or break.

    • @oxaile4021
      @oxaile4021 Год назад +13

      @@Ziegeri That's the whole point. You have to test and figure out ways to push the limits. This video is like saying you're gonna tune your car for more performance and then just going to a dealer and trading it for a Lamborghini.

  • @wind2dk
    @wind2dk Год назад +47

    You can definitely optimize your lego builds to make the car a LOT more stable

  • @henrywood5462
    @henrywood5462 Год назад +30

    The thing I like the most about your videos is you show all the fails and problems you have with the project

    • @Project-Air
      @Project-Air  Год назад +13

      There wouldn't be much of a video without them haha, but yes I love showing what hands - on engineering is all about - trial and error!

  • @doctorspooger5966
    @doctorspooger5966 Год назад +14

    48 years ago, using the same rocket motors, Estes C6-5, my friend and I built a Lego rocket car. The car disassembled in rapid fashion on the first three attempts. However, we discovered using Large Lego wheels, 2" in diameter with a 1/4" wide tread, and lengthening the vehicle to about 2' long AND using a new invention called Krazy Glue. We had three successful runs. Using a stop watch and a blacktop basketball court to measure speed, Lego Landsmasher IV went an astounding 26mph.

  • @tofu_golem
    @tofu_golem Год назад +12

    The one using LEGO parts entirely was the most impressive.

  • @AccAkut1987
    @AccAkut1987 Год назад +26

    The 3:30 variant reminds me of the "Dolmette" chainsaw driven motorcycle 😁
    The last car just had no chassis at all, you basically just bolted two axles to a flimsy wooden board. Just with some simple chassis building, triangulation and so on you'd have a car that survives the stresses.

  • @hyperturbotechnomike
    @hyperturbotechnomike Год назад +17

    What your lego cars need is suspension. The Channel Brick technology has made a video where he compares different types of lego technic suspension designs. A differential would also help against wheel spin.

  • @Nathan15038
    @Nathan15038 3 месяца назад +1

    11:45 So much torque, the chassis twisted coming off the line😂

  • @28th_St_Air
    @28th_St_Air Год назад +45

    You certainly achieved the “Air” part of the project here @8:07. 😊

  • @Lampe2020
    @Lampe2020 Год назад +15

    1:54 "kp/h" is wrong. Either "km/h" or "kph", the "p" stands for "per" and thus makes the "/" redundant.

    • @MODElAIRPLANE100
      @MODElAIRPLANE100 Год назад +1

      Kmh^-1

    • @MODElAIRPLANE100
      @MODElAIRPLANE100 Год назад

      Kp/h if k means km is acceleration in kmh^-2

    • @Lampe2020
      @Lampe2020 Год назад +2

      @@MODElAIRPLANE100
      I think he meant speed and not acceleration.

    • @tschichpich
      @tschichpich Год назад +1

      imo kph is wrong and only km/h is right.
      kph would be kilo per hour and missing unit of distance and it infuriates me that the m gets dropped

    • @melody_florum
      @melody_florum Год назад +1

      6 kilo per per hour!
      The rest of the video uses km/h so I think it was a typo

  • @BrixDownUnder
    @BrixDownUnder Год назад +2

    bro just looking at this makes me cry 3:10 there is such a tiny fraction of current going to those motors. Also people have made genuine LEGO cars that go faster

  • @robedmunds7163
    @robedmunds7163 Год назад +34

    Tether car that goes around in circles tethered to a central post would be good to try also. There used to be a guy that brought a whole set up to Old Warden model days with some high speed petrol engined tether cars running on a circular portable road - they were quite exciting to watch.

    • @aydinlutmergp4885
      @aydinlutmergp4885 Год назад +1

      I feel like with the speed of the rocket engine the centrifugal force might be too much but I still wanna see it lol

    • @melody3741
      @melody3741 Год назад

      @@aydinlutmergp4885those cars go at 2-4rpm’s on what a 15 foot wide track?

  • @themetalslayer2260
    @themetalslayer2260 Год назад +9

    there's 2 improvements you can do
    first adding suspension to help the car to keep its wheels on the road (it will increase the weight, you'll need to take care about the suspension travel and lego shock absorbers aren't the best but it will absorb the roughness of the road and will improve the stability)
    two : don't forget to put a caster angle on your steering to improve stability
    the vehicle is very light so the stability is really important

  • @ihatebrocoli637
    @ihatebrocoli637 Год назад +1

    Yoo congrats on 300k

  • @nigeldepledge3790
    @nigeldepledge3790 3 месяца назад +2

    All of your cars were pretty flimsy. If you don't mind adding quite a bit of weight, you can make them much stronger.
    However, the surface you're running on will always be an issue unless you use suspension.

  • @vincentberg
    @vincentberg Год назад +1

    Congrats on 300k 🎉

  • @mortimersnead5821
    @mortimersnead5821 Год назад +3

    I can't help thinking that smooth pavement would make a world of difference.

  • @air-headedaviator1805
    @air-headedaviator1805 Год назад +4

    To be honest James, there’s some more one could’ve done on this by simply making a box chasis out of bricks.

  • @MoMadNU
    @MoMadNU Год назад

    10:47 Left Bearing Block has already cracked 😂

  • @guard13007
    @guard13007 Год назад +3

    Halfway through, it seems like the lack of suspension is your biggest problem.
    Wow, I'm really surprised you didn't address that.

  • @thinkdifferent01
    @thinkdifferent01 Год назад +1

    Your biggest enemy is the bad street...

  • @jxnion4592
    @jxnion4592 Год назад +1

    Man,thats not LEGO,thats LET GO

  • @Jim__bob
    @Jim__bob Год назад +1

    I dont blame you for thinking that lego does not hold up well because its plastic, but if you just look at a couple of images of lego technic, you can really get a feel of how strong lego technic can be. you just have to use it properly!

  • @alwaf2394
    @alwaf2394 Месяц назад +1

    When making Pure LEGO RC Car, I highly recommend BuWizz Motors, especially the 3.0. Because, it has atleast 5 times more power than the LEGO Motors you used.

  • @hbecker2574
    @hbecker2574 Год назад +3

    Where can I find the RC car motor?

  • @conanobrien1
    @conanobrien1 Год назад

    5:53 Hope Richard Hammond doesn't watch this. 🤣

  • @SteffenHausB
    @SteffenHausB Год назад

    "You have to have a car with four wheels that thouch the ground at all times"
    C-Motor: "I pretend I didn't hear that!"

  • @marcovw6415
    @marcovw6415 Год назад +1

    There are some very talenten Lego RUclipsrs out there that can and have designed cars with superb suspension and frame strength. I feel like a collab is needed herr

  • @JensPilemandOttesen
    @JensPilemandOttesen Год назад

    As a kid we build lego technic cars and dragged them after a bike, to see what car could fastest before breaking.
    Rubberband-suspention.
    Wide car.
    Vertical lego bars with pegs, to clamp it together.

  • @tomates6
    @tomates6 Год назад

    Congrats on 300K 🎉🎉🎉🎉 congratulations 🍾🎉🎊🎈

  • @kaiperdaens7670
    @kaiperdaens7670 Год назад +1

    Yeah so that much Lego motors should definitely go on different battery boxes and different ir recievers BC you were overloading them, and definitely if you want speed or power.
    And you probably don't know but the different motors have different speeds and powers.

  • @AstroHopefulBenjaminGottsch
    @AstroHopefulBenjaminGottsch Год назад +3

    I've built a lego space capsule that had an actual little minifig that I could mount on a model rocket. I could send you the instructions I made with the part list if you want another fun lego project.

  • @sevenpastmidnight9542
    @sevenpastmidnight9542 Год назад

    Imagining someone finding half a Lego car with a rocket glued to it

  • @jakhazardzn9862
    @jakhazardzn9862 Год назад +4

    Bud, Don't ever feel silly for doing things that give us epic content :) !

  • @Shayaankahn
    @Shayaankahn Год назад

    Congrats on 300k bro! 🎉❤

  • @tymumm3744
    @tymumm3744 Год назад +1

    Hm maybe if you had a wider chassis and a bit of suspension it would help with the bumpiness of the road, and be able to have more control at higher speeds.

  • @trojlok2107
    @trojlok2107 Год назад

    3:42 bro lives in silent hill 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

  • @camdix3250
    @camdix3250 Год назад

    This is a really sweet video. I"m an adult fan of LEGO and must be very naive for I was hoping for faster speeds. I must say, you have incridible determination. I loved the model rocket engines on the cars. They really reminded me of the long, slender, rocket powered LSR-type of car. Thank you for this video and best wishes.

  • @dirtbikeroad7802
    @dirtbikeroad7802 4 месяца назад

    Bro, it’s not really an RC car made of Lego. It’s just an RC car now.

  • @garratt5
    @garratt5 Год назад +1

    Making the car wider helps with stability as well

  • @РинатРаот
    @РинатРаот Год назад

    Nice, this is exactly what I was looking for))
    Cool idea)

  • @albert-janoolhorst8130
    @albert-janoolhorst8130 Год назад +1

    You have to add suspension to absorb the bumps of the road.

  • @cusscuss2536
    @cusscuss2536 Год назад +3

    LETS GOO AN UPLOAD

  • @1.618_Murphy
    @1.618_Murphy Год назад

    Brick Technology is proud of you!

  • @Webfra14
    @Webfra14 Год назад

    The fastest my LEGO cars will ever go is, how fast my 3-yo can throw them...

  • @RobDavisAkaMonk
    @RobDavisAkaMonk Год назад +2

    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.

  • @disgustingapple5216
    @disgustingapple5216 Год назад +1

    He really went the trailmakers more engine more power lol

  • @zaysousa1
    @zaysousa1 Год назад +1

    Cool it’s awesome to see the cool projects you make

  • @diecast164andmore9
    @diecast164andmore9 Год назад

    Engines are powered by combustion, motors are powered by electric.

  • @KingKhiGaming
    @KingKhiGaming Год назад +1

    I still want that rocket power train

  • @Cinnamon_Shaey
    @Cinnamon_Shaey Год назад

    Rule 1: must be built out of Lego
    Couple minutes later straps a rocket to the back... 😂😂😂

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations Год назад +2

    Pretty nice work, James! 😃
    Looking forward to see what you make next!
    Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

  • @6DViyanNair
    @6DViyanNair Месяц назад

    What you could do is angle the front down and add 2 A-class motors at the front and a B-class at the rear, for better downforce which gives better stability.

  • @noodlenoggin70
    @noodlenoggin70 Год назад

    When I was about your age (guessing) a long time ago, I also made a rocket Lego car using the little Estes A motors, and went through much the same progression. 1st car, too short, tumbled immediately. 2nd car longer, took off ok until thrust overpowered it and it tumbled at about 15' range. 2nd car v2.0 - added vertical stabilizer from rocket kit. Success...until front end exploded from road vibrations. 2nd car v2.1 -- taped front end together: SUCCESS! Car traveled straight down road until ejection charge in motor went off.

  • @jiovaniloncarevic
    @jiovaniloncarevic 6 месяцев назад

    3:49 "Now to find a proper road with a smoother surface..." (Finds the smoothest road in England, still very rough and textured).

  • @MaskedMarble
    @MaskedMarble Год назад

    Building the fastest “Lego” car…by trying to pair a Lego build with non-Lego propulsion? Might as well just take an unpowered Lego car and put in a carry-on bag on your next airplane trip, and claim it’s the fastest “Lego” car at 550mph!

  • @450gmo
    @450gmo Год назад

    All 4 wheels must touch the ground...
    ... except for when it is crashing spectacularly!
    😂

  • @RetroArcadeGuy
    @RetroArcadeGuy Год назад

    Your problem: No Aerodinamics.
    Solution: Add aerodinamics.

  • @Matt-uv3eg
    @Matt-uv3eg 5 дней назад

    Upright fin for sideways stability and front and rear wings to keep it glued to the road!

  • @ArjunShreyanshValmikam
    @ArjunShreyanshValmikam 6 месяцев назад +1

    Nice ideas, but you could 3D print some custom Lego parts to keep it more stable with the size C rocket - advice from a 13 year old btw 😅

  • @diggingwithmartin
    @diggingwithmartin 10 месяцев назад

    really cool video!!! i too love experimenting with all kinds of r.c. motors/parts of all kinds.

  • @wolfmusic8737
    @wolfmusic8737 Год назад +2

    I think to solve the problem of turning at high speed, you can spread the wheels like the front wheels.

  • @jesseboiten9889
    @jesseboiten9889 Год назад

    Congrats on 300k!!

  • @jomorken4853
    @jomorken4853 14 дней назад

    My personal favourite for lego speed, was rubber band driven ratchet system

  • @PCrailfan3790
    @PCrailfan3790 Год назад +1

    No hard feelings, but I kinda find it funny that a guy with little to no experience with Lego attempt to make the worlds fastest Lego car with low speed-high torque motors.

  • @_Incognonymous
    @_Incognonymous Год назад +2

    Bro thinks hes markrober (sarcasm)
    Great video btw!

  • @basberend
    @basberend Год назад

    1 of the most important parts to go fast = to have a good and stable chassis to start with. the way you are connecting the lego parts is not strong/stable, and a smooth surface is a must. however this again was a entertaining video

  • @hispronounsaretheythem
    @hispronounsaretheythem Год назад +1

    And now use the Lego Buggy motors

  • @Obsrvr86118
    @Obsrvr86118 Год назад

    "feel a bit silly playing with lego in public" That cracked me up :D interesting content tho especially for kids or beginers interested in engineering. Or someone going down a youtube rabithole at 4am on a 'school night' :)

  • @frostybootz
    @frostybootz Год назад

    5:00 Holdup, you can 3D print LEGO bricks?

  • @christiangunther7216
    @christiangunther7216 Год назад +1

    In order to achieve a proper Land Speed record you have to reach the speed twice in each direction of the track

  • @MrHecker79
    @MrHecker79 2 месяца назад +1

    Where did you get that motor from!?!?!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

  • @DataTime27
    @DataTime27 Год назад

    Great video James! Where is the end card linking another one of your videos?

  • @whoever6458
    @whoever6458 Год назад

    When I was a kid, my brother and I used to build cars out of Legos to see if we could build one that would stay together when sent down all 11 stairs in our house. Everything was carpeted at the time so it was just a matter of them surviving going from one story down to the other.
    Legos seem to have been different then as most of the blocks were thicker than that and we didn't have any of those longer ones with holes in the sides either so I would say that they were more robust. The common problem was that the wheels just clipped onto these little plastic clips on the side of blocks made for that so the wheels would usually fall off and sometimes they'd pick the entire brick off of the car with them, plus we entirely broke a few such bricks at the little attachment point that clipped into the hub of the wheel. There had to have been loads of friction too since it was just a plastic on plastic bearing. The other thing that happened was that bricks would fall off of the outsides of our cars or whole sections would if we tried to put any hollow space inside the car.
    There were no Lego motors or any electronics whatsoever back then and this video is actually the first time I've ever heard of such a thing and now I want some! It was all push-powered stuff back then though. There were RC cars and we ruined several a Christmas/Chanukah present sending them down the stairs to see what happened, although I don't know why we didn't expect them to break even more efficiently than our Lego cars. This is obviously why we only sent a couple of them down the stairs before we realized that they'd all just immediately be destroyed. Seeing all the cool parts I could have harvested from them, I wish I still had them, although I doubt the parts really would have avoided oxidation after all these decades. All of the controllers were likely shittier back then too but I don't know since I've never owned one of these newer ones. The newest remote control thing I've ever owned was one of those cheap RC helicopters that you can fly indoors. I will say both that I suck at flying helicopters and that it was very funny to watch my cats chase and catch the helicopter.

  • @briqtastic
    @briqtastic Год назад

    Oh really cool done, you can do so much with LEGO

  • @justinmacdonald6079
    @justinmacdonald6079 Год назад

    Been watching you since the beginning bro. I'm so surprised you haven't hit 1m subs like I LOVE watching you. I wish I could watch a video every day. Keep it up. Proud of you. You'll hit 1m in no time

  • @pauljs75
    @pauljs75 Год назад

    All the cars shown in this should be kept to separate classes for their respective records. (Lego parts only, modified - non wheel driven, modified - wheel driven.)

  • @StevenStyczinski-sy8cj
    @StevenStyczinski-sy8cj Месяц назад

    It sure looks like you’re having fun!

  • @diyfireking
    @diyfireking Год назад +1

    Wonderful work.

  • @uavcrazy9562
    @uavcrazy9562 Год назад +1

    Idea: wider wheelbase! Also, maybe double the Lego struts. Maybe Lego 😁 Rocket car could go a lot faster if it had the servo steering (maybe with steering assist too?) And a Lego housing to hold the force of the rocket (vs hot glue).

  • @harrywatcham1695
    @harrywatcham1695 Год назад

    Yessss I’ve been waiting for this

  • @domramsey
    @domramsey Год назад +7

    You need a "no custom lego" rule, otherwise you might as well machine all new parts out of metal🙂

  • @poemes
    @poemes Год назад +1

    Great video but its a crime you hooked like 7 PF XL motors to the same battery box a stock lego battery box can only really power 2 PF XL motors at full power, also some suspension and Akerman steering geometry would have helped alot

  • @dm1i
    @dm1i Год назад

    It is actually possible to build much stronger LEGO cars. It has a lot of ways and elements to reinforce the structure.

  • @scottedwards1592
    @scottedwards1592 Год назад

    Just a quick note, assuming 100% efficiency from the motors the absolute maximum horsepower you would get from 8 xl lego dc motors is about 0.043, not 0.1. Realistically your looking at 60% of that, so around 0.02 horsepower

  • @dfgaJK
    @dfgaJK Год назад

    you could have just taken the lego car on a jet. Fastest lego car ever.

  • @SmallBlogV8
    @SmallBlogV8 Год назад

    Love the idea of this. Also, JIMNY!

  • @kuzadupa185
    @kuzadupa185 Год назад

    Tip:: when attaching anything with an lcd screen onto one of my RC vehicles/creations, or using it "in the field" for this sort of experimenting, the moment i get the monitor/sensor, or whatever it is that has a shiny screen, is I first peel off transparent packing tape from a roll, cut to fit, and apply it to the shiny new screen. Sometimes i wont even cut to fit, because i know ill be replacing that packing tape "screen protector" sometime soon.
    Thought this *may* be helpful... with future speed monitors or whatever else... that has a nice new shiny screen someone wants to protect

  • @mathevideos9909
    @mathevideos9909 Год назад +1

    But isn't kp/h like double division?
    It's either kph or km/h, it?

  • @chrissugg968
    @chrissugg968 Год назад

    You need to look into some actual lego building techniques to make the things you make stronger.
    Instead of just placing beams directly on top of each other, if you place two single plates between them, the holes will line up at exactly the right distance so you can add vertical beams connected with pegs. This will make a much stronger structure.

  • @SyncCodm6969
    @SyncCodm6969 Год назад

    I LOVE UR VIDS so interesting to watch even when ur bored

  • @racerboyeddie
    @racerboyeddie Год назад +1

    pov: lets make a video about how little i know about physics

  • @eekee6034
    @eekee6034 Год назад

    "and 2, the cars are made out of Lego."
    Oh, so this is basically rally Group B, but Lego. 😳😳😳

  • @quayneveenstra5433
    @quayneveenstra5433 11 месяцев назад

    bro never thought of combining the three 💀💀💀💀💀

  • @englishforkids6109
    @englishforkids6109 Год назад

    3:00 the middle motor is spinning the opposite way as the two outer one are rotating the same the middle is been the opposite direction and it could potentially break the motor if stressed for long period of time

  • @Careditinghub
    @Careditinghub 2 месяца назад

    a suspension system would have helped massively