New Rocket Powered Matchbox Cars! - Extreme!

First of all my inspiration for this project came from zjharva. This is a new version of Rocket Powered Matchbox cars with video! Now you see what they really do on rocket power! I used Hot Wheels cars but I felt they really needed to be called Matchbox because of what were about to do to them!

Step 1: What you need!

First of all you will need a package of Estes A10-PT model rocket engines. You can find these at most Walmart store, hobby shops or other stores that carry model rockets.

Comments

[teknohawk]

You cannot build the igniter. It is a Estes rocket igniter. For $5.00 you can find them at almost any hobby shop. To make your own, you can (safely) build a fuse to go into the engine, or salvage some Nichrome wire and hook that up to a battery-It gets HOT because of it's great resistance applied to the batterys voltage.

[comodore]

How did you ignite the rocket? How did you make the electric igniter?

[cj8675]

I get 2 20 foot pieces of wire with alligator clips on one end clip the clips to the fuse and touch the other ends of the wore to a 12 volt cordless tool battery

[cowmanpoke]

I opened one up once and I'm pretty sure it's just 4 AA batteries in series. No circuitry.

[estab]

you don't make it you buy it

[apologun]

can i use A3-3T or A10-3T instead of A10-PT?

[comodore]

Where can I find it? Thank you!

[estab]

hoby store that sells rocket cars

[hunter1125]

do you mean a hoby store that sells estes rockets or a website that sells estes rockets? i have never seen a hoby store that sells official rocket cars.

[estab]

yea that one

[comodore]

OK, Thank you!

[SgtJellyfish]

are model rocket engines allowed in australia?

[Ralphieman]

Yes, but you need to get them from hobby shops and they are quite expensive.

[yapoyo]

I did this with a C6-5 a few years ago and the car almost flew away! I los the car, but a few hours later, i found it about half a mile away from the launch site!!!

[Lucifeba]

Its so COOL!!!!is so fast I love it :D

[build52]

we did that but we did't do the string and we also lost it

[asarris]

Awesome, modded your design with 500 yards string and 3 stage rockets, (used bigger car of course) for the stages i used a simple stopwatch that had (2nd stage .4 seconds and stage 3 which had 2 rockets on side at .8 seconds) clocked speed at 210 miles per hour :D destroyed the car afterwards and forgot to video it :c but it was fun. (for the stopwatches, when the initial current comes i sautered a wire so that it activates start and then another wire so that instead of beeping it activates the stage, sorry for long comment.

[pufferfish9108]

well about the rocket car, you could put 3 engines on top of eachother and then use 3 stages. Stage 1 would be connected to stage 2 with a piece of fuse string, and the same would work with stage 3. Or you could get a big ballon of hairspray or butane and have another fuse connected to that.

TO THE PYROS OF THE WORLD

[bjb98]

That would be very scary

[physics95]

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[bjb98]

just get anogther rocket engine duh =)

[physics95]

well thanks I found one I totally forgot that I wrote it it was long time ago
thanks any way:P

[bjb98]

Ur welcome :)

[sethcim]

Can you add information about the track / guidance system please?

[noah279878582]

i've seen all of kipkay's video's on youtube :P

[meat grinder]

all the cool people use masking tape.

[Mongo Of Fire]

No, Duct Tape is cooler. Mongo has spoken. (AGAIN!)

[christpher]

i agrey duct tape is cooler

[Gamer917]

i agree, but i cant find my roll of duct tape T_T

[dla888]

Whenever I lose my duct tape I feel like my life has collapsed!

[meat grinder]

masking tape is lighter but ducktape is better. dont say mongo has spoken it sounds stupid

[Mongo Of Fire]

I will say "Mongo has spoken" Whenever I please, thank you very much. Besides that, did you really have to reply to mine as opposed to your own to make it so that you didn't make yourself look like a complete jerk? I mean, you don't really have to point that sort of thing out unless it isn't on the internet. On the internet, I can be as much of a nerd as I want and you can't really do anything about it. I can even post something like this up if I want to. I guess I want to, because I beleive that I just posted this. Wouldn't you agree? (And to think that all of this started by you saying that all of the cool people use masking tape...)

[bjb98]

MONGO HAS SPOKEN!!!!!!!

[XWXAXDXEX]

Rofl hes obviously like 10 to drag something on that long but yeh, Mongo saying "Mongo has spoken" makes it look like you think too much of yourself...

[awesomekitteh]

ah, ah, ah. temper, temper. Yay eminem! (concience)

[doodleninja]

HOLY COW DOODLE NINJA LIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[phobos_001]

nice

[phobos_001]

te la bañaste jaja qe chido

[Friscky]

Could you just strap a bottle rocket on to it? Just wondering.

[hunter1125]

interesting. did you ever try adding a bigger rocket "engine" to a bigger car like a pinewood derby car? that might work pretty well.