Building A Lego Rubber Band Powered Dragster To Beat EBbuilds In A Race!

[00:00:00]Hi everyone. Today I'm going to try to make a rubber band powered car so I can try to beat my brother in a race. Let's get into it.

[00:00:23]Hi, my name's Orb and these are my creations. Stick around to the end of the video because I'm probably making something pretty cool.

[00:00:32]>> [music] [music] [music] >> It works.

[00:00:51]The high gear ratio makes it go super fast. um when you just wind it up like once.

[00:01:03]Okay, that wasn't super fast, but let's do five.

[00:01:10]I don't even think it'll do five.

[00:01:16]That's three.

[00:01:25]Yeah, might have to rework this, but I think it's a good start. So, yeah.

[00:01:34][music] Okay. So, it's day two and my plans for today for this pullback car.

[00:01:44]I think that I would like to redesign the entire thing minus the gearing mechanism. I really like the gear ratio.

[00:01:56]So, I think it'll go super fast, but I think I need to make it one stud longer or two studs longer to make it like a six wide car and eight studs wide with the tires.

[00:02:09]And I just need to create a breakaway mechanism for the rubber band from the gear so that the car can keep rolling after the rubber band pulls it.

[00:02:23]So, those are my plans for today. So, yeah, let's get into the time lapse.

[00:02:31][music] [music] So, I built a V1.

[00:02:57]So, now I'm just going to go test it quick on a long s flat surface and then I'll be back to tell you what happened.

[00:03:08]Okay, so it went super far. probably like five feet, which in my book is pretty far. I'm not positive how far EB's can go, but I think I have a pretty good shot at winning. So, I think that I'm going to upgrade the rear tires to this size, which is a little bit bigger.

[00:03:34]And then I'm going to extend the front out more. Maybe shortening the rear and then extending the front because I want to make some sort of dragster. I don't know how to make a dragster, but I want to make a dragster. So yeah, stay tuned.

[00:03:58]That's definitely not a fake Lego brick.

[00:04:01][laughter] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Okay. Well, it seems to be done. I'll clean up my table and then uh I'll give you guys a look around.

[00:04:32]Okay. Well, here's my finished rubber band powered car. I'm happy that I was able to make a dragster.

[00:04:39]Um, I think it looks very dragstery.

[00:04:42]It has the cool front. I'm not actually sure where these parts came from. Um, not sure what set they're from, but they look cool and I think they kind of match the Drake feel.

[00:04:59]And yeah, it has a little interior for one minifig.

[00:05:05]It has some exhaust pipes coming out of the very undetailed engine and a very bricky spoiler.

[00:05:16]The rear doesn't look great, but all that matters is that the front looks cool.

[00:05:23]So, yeah, I'm happy that I was able to make a rubber band powered mechanism for this car.

[00:05:31]All you have to do to make the mechanism work is uh put that behind there and roll it back multiple times.

[00:05:51]As you can see, it wraps it around there.

[00:05:58]You can go as many times as you want or until the rubber band kind of gets um wedged in between there, but the gear ratio should make it go pretty far. So, yeah, let's go to the racetrack.

[00:06:15]Start your engines.

[00:06:23]>> [music] [music] >> Well, here's the loser car. I'm slightly disappointed that it didn't make it.

[00:06:49]Five more feet to the gravel where EB's made it. But yeah, I consider a win in my opinion because it shot off like a rocket and by far was faster than EB's. But it is an incline, so EB's did have more of a shot because his wheels roll better.

[00:07:18]Now, my brother Eie made a video of his own documenting his build as well as the race, and you should go check it out.

[00:07:27]Link to that video will be in the description. Yeah, I hope you enjoyed this video. Like and subscribe, and I will see you in the next one.

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