1,482 views

2:49

Watch
- Search Videos
  
  Advanced search »
- Submit a New Video
Discuss
About
- Try clicking on the various channels to see videos posted to that channel - if you're into music you can click the Music channel to get more music sifts - go on and explore! Use the "hotness" when you have opened the channel link to get videos that have gotten a lot of votes, or use "newness" to have a look at the new sifts.
  When browsing sifts you like, have a look at the Related Posts list to see other related videos, click the tags under the video title to see more sifts tagged with the same tags or have a look at other sifts from the same user in the More Posts By list. If the sifted video is in a play list, have a look at the play list to see other interesting videos the Sift users have linked together.
  Enter the Sift Lounge to chat with online sifters about anything and everything, or read interesting posts in the Sift Talk forum.
  The Top New Videos list is always full of interesting, current videos. It is always recommended that you have a look through the Top New Videos, but also have a look at these:
  - Upcoming Unsifted Videos - active video submissions that neither are published to the front page nor archived to the submitter's personal queue
- Have you seen a really funny, surprising, scary, interesting, cute or in any other way extra good quality video?
  Post and share it here - VideoSift is the best video aggregator on the Web, where we share, discuss, promote, and interact with the best videos out there on the web. Post it here, and share it with the large community of video-interested users. And - you are guaranteed to find more very good videos here already!
  Mind you, we only share videos you discover that someone else has made; if you "self link," by posting a video you have made, have posted or have interests in, you risk the ban hammer - read the posting guidelines before posting. The sift is NOT for promoting your own videos - it is for sharing videos others have made.
  Submit a Video Now »
Login

Coke Zero and Mentos Rocket Car - Mark II

submitted by sme4r

1 decade 2 years 4 months 1 week ago

I labeled it under commercial because they gave a special thanks to Coke Zero and Mentos, although I do not think this is an advertisement for either product.

FYT:

Driver on closed track. Don't try this without professional help.

Exploring the limits of Coke & Mentos power, this is the new Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car: Mark II -- faster, farther, and even more soaking wet.

See our other Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car videos at http://www.eepybird.com/
Including the Coke Zero and Mentos Rocket Car: Mark I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-hXcRtbj1Y
And the Mark I in 3-D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuxqPuhLBZg

And see the Rocket Car: Mark II face off with the Mark I. Which goes farther: raw power or refined aerodynamics?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhFwiFHWat8

Check out our Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/EepyBird

About The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car: Mark II

After years of work, we've harnessed the explosive power of Coke and Mentos and achieved human propulsion! 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 Mentos mints combine to propel EepyBird into the annals of bizarre records. After the success of the Mark I, this is the Mark II: smaller, lighter, sleeker, faster... And farther! Yep, this vehicle went farther than the Mark I, with just half the fuel.

The music track is System Countdown by our friends at AudioBody: http://www.AudioBody.com off their album Do Something Difficult.

How Does This Work?

This is one not to try at home.

The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car uses a piston mechanism: a six-foot long rod sits inside a six-foot long tube attached to each bottle of Coke Zero. When the Mentos drop into the soda, the pressure tries to push the rod out of the tube. With 54 rods all pushing at once, that gives us a lot of power.

All that power is pushing against a solid wall that's attached to a sheet of plywood that runs under the rocket car itself -- so the wall won't move, the rocket car will. We get one big push for six feet, and then it's all coasting from there.

Want to know what makes the soda fly out of the bottle? Will you explode if you drink Coke and eat Mentos? Click here to find out about the power of Coke and Mentos: http://www.eepybird.com/featured-video/science-of-coke-mentos/

Don't Try This at Home!

Seriously, don't try this at home. There is a huge amount of power involved, and we don't want you to get hurt.

What you can (and should) try at home is the Coke & Mentos geyser: you can get your own Coke and Mentos Kit: http://eepybird.portmerch.com/stores/product.php?productid=16873&cat=0&am... which includes nozzles just like the ones we use in our geyser videos, or you can click here: http://www.eepybird.com/featured-video/make-your-own-geysers/ to learn how you can make Coke and Mentos geysers with stuff from around your house.

Credits

The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car: Mark II by EepyBird: Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one). Music by AudioBody: http://www.AudioBody.com

Filmed in Oxford, Maine at Oxford Plains Speedway: http://www.OxfordPlains.com
Big thanks to Butch Lenberg and the gang at the Speedway for making that possible. Thanks to the EepyBird pit crew: Big Dave Tardy and Casey Turner. Captured on video by the one and only Mike Miclon, with able help from Shane Miclon and Brian Miclon.

The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car: Mark II was welded together by the incomparable S & T Productions, with an odd assortment of parts around a pedal car frame, by Nick Salvati and Big Dave Tardy.

And thanks to Coca-Cola Zero and Mentos for making this possible! Visit http://www.facebook.com/cocacolazero and http://www.facebook.com/MentosUS