The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car (2-D version)

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

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Our video was awarded a Special Mention at the 3D Film Festival!

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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 BTMusic.com.

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You can get 3-D glasses from our online store – they’re two bucks each or free with any order!  They’ll let you watch this in 3-D on any computer.  Or you can also make your own 3-D glasses at home. Click here to find out how so you can enhance your Coke Mentos viewing experience!

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. So all the force is directed into moving the Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car forward. 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 the power 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, which includes nozzles just like the ones we use in our geyser videos, or you can click here to learn how you can make a coke mentos geysers with stuff from around your house.

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 Coca-Cola Zero and Mentos for making this possible!

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  • zach

    If you were to do the time 27.59 and / by the distance 221 feet you will get 8 feet per 1 sec. which equals 5.4 miles.

  • Ben de la Vega

    Do Not Try This Without Professional Help!

    Do you mean a psychiatrist? LOL Congradulations on the success of a really cool project!

    Ben

  • Keith Barnett

    Too cool! A very sweet accomplishment!
    Eat your heart out NASA!
    Next step…Mars.

  • Julie

    Fantastic. My kids showed the geyser to their grandparents, aunts and uncles after my daughter’s ballet recital on May 25th. Their Uncle Bill was so taken with the geyser that he sent me the link to this new video today to show the kids. Well done. much fun!

  • Greybeard

    When will you learn to stop wasting your energy sources?

  • http://www.facebook.com/mikop.dizon Miko Dizon

    heheheheh

  • http://www.facebook.com/krapsusa Marc Silva Sr

    So does that means the Land speed record for a Mentos and coke powered vechime is now 5.4 miles.

  • Chris Farr

    Was that shot at Moffet Field?

  • eepy

    At a blimp hangar in Tustin, CA. :)

  • http://www.designsbyskip.com Skip Lalemand

    Nick you cagey SOB, great job, but I wouldn’t quit my day job.

    Get those connections tighter, with a smaller opening, and get the ends all real close and you’ll double the speed and distance.

  • eepy

    :) Let’s see if Nick checks the comments here!

    Best,
    -Jaime

  • max

    Awesome Dudes, I wish I would do some projects as cool as you all.

  • Michael

    Congrats Gents…This is awesome! I am very excited for you and look forward to seeing what else you’ve got up your sleeves! Congrats Again!

  • eepy

    Thanks Michael!

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  • Gary

    Hmm, maybe they should shove Mentos into the oil well in the gulf. Anything is possible….

  • Chris C.

    Hey guys, that was awesome! I work at The District right next door…please E-mail me next time you guys do something in that area.

  • Josie Sonavacationfaraway

    The bald guy released too late. I think it would have gone farther if he would have released the vehicle before they dropped the Mentos’.

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  • Linda

    Fabulous. Videos for the last day of school. Summer for the kids to work out their own versions. Sweet.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/isaacthelocals Isaac Shainblum

    too funny! certainly original!:)

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  • lungu bogdan

    you should use smaller bottle to have double effect to same quantities of coke

  • http://duksis.lv Hugo

    Guys you definitely need to improve the aerodynamics and efficiency of fuel usage.
    But otherwise – Respect!!

  • TJ

    Yikes for the back seat passengers ;) Pretty cool test.

  • Sue M.

    TOTAL ‘SHOCK & AWE’…you guys rule!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000144034302 Alex Lee

    @w350m3!!!

  • Mooo

    I already knew the coca-mentos thing but this experiment is just AWESOOOOOOME !

    Do you exactly know the speed the car reached ?

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  • Laurie

    Maybe BP should b e manufacturing soft drinks instead of drilling for oil.
    You guys are brilliant. Simply brilliant.

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    guys im so very happy because your experiment is very good

  • sara

    car of the future

  • Buck

    You could have doubled your distance if you had eliminated that lever brake? What was that for? Half of your pressure was expended by the time you threw the lever forward to release the bike.

  • BNTMAN

    Pretty cool! Although, it isn’t going to make much of a difference to the world….

  • Greybabe6

    wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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