The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car: Mark II

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

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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

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[ghostrid3]

was that the tubes at end of video coming off or were those inserts to tubes to narrow and concentrate the explosion of liquid

[EepyBird]

@ghostrid3 We're actually using a simple piston mechanism. Each 6' tube attached to the bottles has a 6' rod inside it. The pressure from the Coke Zero & Mentos reaction pushes the rods out of the tubes, so we get 6' of really strong push off the wall behind the car. We're mostly coasting after that.

[curtisludlow]

Just 327,410,526 bottles of Coke and you can go to the moon with that contraption!

[alexrascon1]

Holymoly imagine all that my coke rewards points they got!!

[shazbotVGS]

1 idiot lol

[PrometheanThought]

great video, thanks for the geeky imagination and fun.

[eagle57ist]

Over 1 Million Hits . Sweet !!!

Can't wait to see what happens next !!!

[sam72952]

Its diet no1 drinks nasty ass diet

[DUBSTEP3X]

thumbs up if u dont know how u got from dubstep to mentos

[MUNTraiano]

you should have measured maximum speed and acceleration

[StevilTwin]

You A-holes with the ignorant jealous comments are the real Idiots! Minions like you need to surf sites just to post asinine remarks. I hope you eventually get a life of your own...Well, maybe you are just not capable? My bad…I shouldn't pick on the hillbillies...

[cutelalacupcake]

Man what a waste of coke