The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car
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Driver on closed track. Don't try this without professional help.
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About The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car
After years of work, the Coke & Mentos guys have harnessed the explosive power of these geysers and achieved human propulsion! 108 bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos mints combine to propel EepyBird into the annals of unusual records.
The music is an original track by BT, written just for this video. Check out http://www.BTMusic.com
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 108 rods all pushing at once, that gives us a lot of power.
All that power is pushing against a wall braced with 3,600 pounds of cement blocks.
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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 & Mentos Kit at http://www.eepystore.com that includes nozzles just like the ones we use in our geyser videos, or you can click here to learn how you can make Coke & Mentos geysers with stuff from around your house:
http://www.eepybird.com/featured-video/make-your-own-geysers/
Credits
The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car by EepyBird: Fritz Grobe (the short one) and Stephen Voltz (the tall one). Directed by Rob Cohen. Music by BT. Produced by Dooma Wendschuh & sekretagent. Filmed in Tustin, California. Thanks to the incomparable EepyBird pit crew: Mike Miclon, Big Dave Tardy, Matt Tardy, and Casey Turner.
The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car was welded together from an odd assortment of parts by Nick Salvati with light-saber-wielding assistance from Mike Miclon. Special thanks to the experimental research team from the Oddfellow Theater, including Mike Miclon, Matt Tardy, Jason Tardy, Dave Tardy, Casey Turner, Sid Edwards, and Brian Miclon.
And thanks to Stafford Green, Craig Cuchra, and all the folks at Coke Zero and Mentos for helping make this possible!

25 Comments
June 1st, 2010 at 8:00 pm
0:48 OMG WHAT THAAAA!!!!!! to rent that fcking colossal arena thing is much more expensive that all coca colas and mentos they're using…. ;/
June 1st, 2010 at 8:34 pm
sweet as, lets power our transport with these great products
June 1st, 2010 at 8:35 pm
@FrackleRackle it was only released on tuesday in america, and i dont think many know of it yet.
you watch in the next 24 hours how many view it.
June 1st, 2010 at 8:37 pm
@bmschulman Yeah that's exactly what i though !
Just look a 1:02, just after he releases the mentos, the frame is bending…. That would've gone a lot further !
June 1st, 2010 at 9:32 pm
@Metalsok "Untitled" by BTmusic.com
June 1st, 2010 at 9:32 pm
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June 1st, 2010 at 9:59 pm
look at those tire marks…wait
June 1st, 2010 at 10:43 pm
@EepyBird
Awesome video!
I swear I had "Diet Coke and Mentos Car" on my list of ideas for Stupid Inventions videos, but I was just going to use a small model car…,
Great job doing it full scale!
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June 2nd, 2010 at 12:15 am
scientist #2 waited like 2 seconds to release the vehicle. Probably could have got an extra 50 feet.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:50 am
Glad it wasn`t Pepsi. It would have been a waste of good soda…The things geeks will do.
June 2nd, 2010 at 12:00 pm
We are lucky this wasn't a government operation……….it would have cost us millions!
June 2nd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
What a waste of Cokes and Mentos!
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:26 pm
@jpmorgan187 Probably to get the coke to push against something(the wall) first if not, there won't be that much of a movement.
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:30 pm
@gyojo2000,
doesn't matter if there is a wall, or not, or it was in outer space. A force in 1 direction (the coke) causes an equal and opposite force in the other direction (the car)
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:35 pm
a lot of propulsion wasted on launch…
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
cool
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:26 pm
What a waste of perfectly good beverage and mint pastilles.
jk…
I loved the ending =P. Great job guys!
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:42 pm
suck 1!!
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:51 pm
@jpmorgan187 i think he needed pressure to build up
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:24 pm
a multi-stage system would work much better
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:52 pm
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June 2nd, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Congratulations. They just discovered what I have known for years. Soft drinks can cause farts and burps.
June 2nd, 2010 at 5:08 pm
love the moon shot!
June 2nd, 2010 at 5:21 pm
i was expecting so much more epicness but meh still good i guess…
June 2nd, 2010 at 6:13 pm
So that's where the stimulus plan went….