I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I was born 20 years too soon. When I was a kid, I had lots of Lego, but the most advanced component in my collection was an electric motor. Without the internet to get inspiration and custom plans, my creations were limited to the stuff that was in the instructions or, in the best case, modified versions of the standard models. Today’s 10-year olds are the luckiest kids in the world, with Lego Mindstorms and all the übercool sets and components.
Of all the custom Lego designs I have ever seen, this is without any doubt one of the coolest. It’s a V8 engine that has all the things a real engine has (almost all, this one doesn’t have sparkplugs for obvious reasons). It has cylinders and pistons, valves, camshafts, a distribution belt (actually a chain in this one) and it all moves the same way it does in a real engine. Whoever designed and built this is plain and simply a genius.
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