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I'm taking these Lego cars and making them way cooler. From small upgrades to completely crazy modifications, let's see how good I can make them look. So, I waited in line at the Lego store to bring my crazy idea to life. I went in
Watch as LEGO cars get epic upgrades from 6x6 builds to working pop-up headlights and turbo kits, making them look cooler than ever.
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Key Takeaways
- LEGO cars can be significantly customized with both aesthetic and functional upgrades.
- Working mechanical features like pop-up headlights and DRS can be recreated using LEGO pieces.
- Collaboration with other builders can inspire new modification ideas.
- Technic LEGO cars allow for engine and performance-inspired upgrades.
- Creative use of official LEGO parts can enhance realism and playability.
What the video covers
- The creator upgrades LEGO Speed Champions Defender by extending it to a 6x6 with extra wheels and length.
- Adds working pop-up headlights to an FC RX-7 LEGO car, mimicking the real vehicle’s feature.
- Collaborates with Maybe Cool to improve a Porsche front and add a twin turbo kit to a Lamborghini Huracan STO.
- Implements working DRS on a Ferrari F1 LEGO car using hinge pieces.
- Combines a Hellcat and a big truck to create a monster truck Hellcat with a pop-up hood snorkel feature.
- Uses an official LEGO laptop piece as a tuning device to add 'extra horsepower' to LEGO cars.
- Upgrades LEGO Technic cars by adding larger wheels and building a realistic-looking engine with official LEGO parts.
- Builds a detailed rotary engine with a timing belt for a Mitsubishi Eclipse LEGO Technic car.
- Adds aesthetic and functional enhancements like stripes, wings, and dual exhaust pipes to various LEGO cars.
- Encourages viewers to try these creative LEGO car modifications and subscribe for more content.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Speed Champions Defender Build
- 01:02Extending Defender to 6x6 with Extra Wheels
- 01:57Completed Defender 6x6 and Miata Fit
- 03:07Pop-up Headlights on FC RX-7 and Collaboration with Maybe Cool
- 04:13Porsche Front and Lamborghini Turbo Kit Upgrades
- 05:13Ferrari F1 Car with Working DRS
- 06:13Monster Truck Hellcat Build
- 07:13Using LEGO Laptop Piece for Car Tuning
- 10:09Technic Car Upgrades: Wheels and Engine Build
- 16:00Rotary Engine and Additional Car Enhancements
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and grabbed this set. It's brand new. So, for this upgrade, which is the first one, I'm going to go all out. I think this is the biggest Speed Champions ever, but I'm about to make it even bigger. We got six bags here, but I
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opened up the first one, built this minifig, and got straight to building. I think this Speed Champions Defender takes over 400 pieces to build. It's a super solid build, and it looks cool, but I'm about to make it look even more
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insane. After a long time of building, I attached these bars on the top and bottom to build the windshield. Then, I even threw on a snorkel. I put it all together, and there we go. This set only comes with four wheels. I'm going to
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have to add a few extra. And we got these massive tires. So, I put them on the car, and with that, the Defender Speed Champions build is now finished.
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And it's time to get upgraded. I mean, this set looks pretty good as it is, but what I'm about to do to it is going to absolutely change everything. There's room for a minifig in the back, which is
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pretty cool. But, my plan is to make this thing a 6x6. It's also going to be five studs longer, which means it gets two extra wheels at the back and becomes so much longer.
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This thing's about to be able to crawl through anything. Okay, so I'm going to need to grab my black pieces. So, I got my massive black Lego bin. Then, I'm going to take the car all apart. This car is built so solid, it's actually
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hard to remove pieces. And then, I found some fenders that match the exact original ones. So, I extended the wheelbase for the rear end, and then I built them around that. Yeah, I know.
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This looks really bad right now, but you're going to have to trust the process because it's about to be worth it. I put the rear end back together, and now this thing's way longer. But, we're just missing one last thing, the
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wheels. Right now, the car only has four wheels, and it looks very weird. So, if I grab this and two more tires, I can throw some extra rims in there. Just to find out it was the wrong tire. So, I
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went to my big bin to dig out some more. And there we go. After attaching them, I can't believe how good this turned out.
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The Defender 6x6 build is complete. It looks like something that LEGO actually made. Literally everything's the exact same, it just has two more wheels, which looks really cool. It's so big, I can throw my new Miata build in the back and
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it fits perfect. But now if I take it outside, oh yeah, that didn't work. Drop a like on this video and I'll add suspension. Okay, that one was pretty hard, but this one's going to be a lot more of a challenge. This is my favorite
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LEGO car I own and I really don't want to break it, but I'm going to go all in on this and try to make working pop-up headlights. But for this, of course, I had to take apart the whole front end
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and rebuild the whole hood. So I made some headlights and I made a cool mechanism that allows them to actually go up and down. And then after rebuilding the front end in a different way, it turned out like this. So this is
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my FC RX-7 and in real life, the headlights actually go up and down, which is my favorite part. So I had to recreate that in LEGO by making my own way of doing this. So now with this upgrade, they can actually move up and
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down and it looks just like the real RX-7 and it's pretty satisfying to move them also. But if you haven't noticed already, that's not the only thing that changed on the front end because now sadly, there's a huge gap on the grill.
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But let me know in the comments if adding these headlights are worth it. I'm about to transform this next LEGO car. But to come up with some more upgrade ideas, I collabed with Maybe Cool. So let's see what he came up with.
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This Porsche for a long time and ever since I had it, I thought the front wasn't accurate enough. So I'm going to modify the front.
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I made a better front. I used these round pieces from this Ninjago spinner as the headlights. Next I'm going to make this Lamborghini Huracan STO way better. I'm going to change up the tail lights and add a twin turbo kit because
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this back is too basic. [music] If you grab these red minifigure hands, it kind of looks like Huracan tail lights. It's already starting to look realistic. I now made the twin turbo kit. All we need now is an exhaust.
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I just finished the twin turbo kit. I'm super happy about how this came out. I also added a license plate using this 1 by 2 white tile. On to the next one.
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I have this Ferrari F1 car and I'm going to try add working DRS. I have to cut these stickers first. I'm going to apply them to two tiles and boom. To make the DRS move, I use this hinge piece. Want to know what I can do
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with this DRS? Uh, what should I do now? Those were actually really good ideas.
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Make sure to go subscribe to his channel. Remember I told you about this Hellcat? I'm going to take both of these cars and turn them into one car. So we get a monster truck Hellcat build. This might be the most insane one yet. Look
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at this really cool feature this truck has by the way. If you pull on this snorkel, it pops the hood and reveals the tiny engine. Okay, we got this big rig and we got the Hellcat. Now we can
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get started. I removed the wheels and I removed the wheels on the big truck. Now it's not really a big truck anymore. I then attached them to the Hellcat and it was so easy. It's literally already done. It's literally a monster truck
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with the Hellcat body. Grave Digger's got nothing on this Hellcat now. And if the minifig wants to drive it, he's going to need to use a ladder. This thing is so tall. Okay, this looks really cool and it was so easy to do. If
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you have these wheels, literally anyone can do it. So I think we should move on to the next car that I'm going to upgrade. Why do I actually like this and kind of want to keep it looking this
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way? I might just take this and put this on my shelf now. Sadly, it's kind of too big to fit where it's original spot was.
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Okay, that's better. If you find one of your LEGO minifigs carrying this thing and you don't know what it is, well, open it up because it's a laptop. It's actually an official LEGO piece and what you can do with this is tune your car.
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So if you take literally any one of your LEGO cars, you can now throw it in the passenger seat and now you have an extra 1,000 horsepower. But the thing is, it's kind of a rare LEGO piece. The set that
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this piece comes in is this one right here. I never do this because it's too much of a challenge. But these are my LEGO Technic cars and the best part about them is they both have working engines. Like this one, my Mitsubishi
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Eclipse. I want to upgrade it, but in a way that will actually make you want to upgrade your Technic cars. I'm going to do a few things to it, but first, the most simple one that anyone can do is
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put these massive wheels on it. They're bigger and thicker, and they're from the Creator F1 set. But, you're probably wondering why I put these wheels on.
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Well, now it looks like it's a drag car. It's got some super thick tires on the front because it's front-wheel drive.
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This is what most drag cars have. But, if you want a drag car, it's going to need to be fast. So, here's the upgrade I'm going to do to the engine. I removed the working pistons and a bunch of pins,
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which would allow me to take all the Technic engine parts out. But, I want to replace it with normal LEGO pieces to make this engine look as realistic as possible. And I'm going to use some insane [music] parts. Like this little
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wire piece, and yes, it is an official LEGO piece. So, I built up the engine block and the valve cover, and I'm going to use this elastic for the timing belt.
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It fits really nice, and it looks like a four-cylinder [music] engine that this
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clay and attach these pipe pieces around a LEGO City rim. This way, I can make a massive turbo, and the rim looks like the part that spools up. So, now, when you pop the hood, extracting all of this
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from the engine bay, the car looks the exact same until you open the hood. It reveals the new engine bay with the massive turbo behind the cold air intake, which is that red piece. This Mitsubishi looks 10 times better. Do I
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have the record for putting the biggest turbo on a LEGO car? I can't stop looking at it. It looks sick. And I really like the rubber band as the timing chain as well. But, if you guys know a building technique where I can
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make this turbo out of actual LEGO and not clay, let me know in the comments because I'm kind of stuck. I haven't tested this out yet, but does the hood actually close with this turbo? Come on, I need this to work. Um guys, we broke
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the turbo. Yeah, I guess that's the only problem. You can't actually fully close the hood, which sucks. Let me go [music] to full-on drag car. This is so sick.
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But everything about this car is perfect. I really like this new drag setup. And now I want one of you guys to try to beat me. Try to make it bigger turbo for your LEGO car, and I want to
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see it. So you can do a drag wheel setup mod, a turbo mod, [music] rubber band for the timing chain mod, or even the cold air intake. This car has it all.
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about the Jeep? Well, I actually ran into a problem and this motor doesn't work that I wanted to use to power this car.
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My motor's broken. But I did see my LEGO Viper mock that I built not too long ago, and I thought this would look really good on it. The surfboard that was on top of the Jeep. And it lies
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against the wing really nice. And why do I actually kind of like this idea? You can also do what I did and add stripes to your LEGO car. Okay, I think the Jeep wants that surfboard back. I can even
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give my tiny little LEGO Miata build this engine ever. This V8 now has a pretty nice Miata. It actually works, by the way.
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Okay, and now if you grab a LEGO car that has a lot of space in the back, like my Honda Civic, you can take it apart and make a space to add some speakers at the back. With these ones
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with stickers or these ones that are real LEGO pieces. So now if I attach the roof back on, the Civic looks great. But now let's test the speakers.
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Okay, they work. This is a tiny LEGO joystick that we've all seen before. But did you know you can detach this piece, which looks like a little black rod? But if you take two of them, you can attach
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it into a LEGO vent pin and you're probably wondering what this is. Well, it is an illegal building technique, but it's also a little engine. So I can attach it to my car. Because now it looks like a detailed valve cover that
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you would see on car engines. And now this looks pretty good on my yellow Civic. Okay, now these are my tiny four-stud-wide LEGO cars that have pretty basic wheels. So to upgrade some small LEGO car wheels, you can do this.
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If you have this wheel with a lot of tread, you can put a tiny LEGO stud in it and that's the rim. This thing is so small. Or take this weird shape Lego piece and put it in a slightly bigger
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tire. And now it looks like a tractor wheel. Or if you have one of these tiny Lego F1 cars, you can take the rim off and then put this tire on it that comes in a bunch of Lego City cars. And after
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stretching it on there, it looks pretty cool. But a cool accessory to use on your Lego cars that would look awesome to display is this, which is a little gas tank I just built up. So now you can
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get your mini fig to refuel your cars. And it's the perfect size. So now my Civic is fueled up again.
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Oh, and I think he put the wrong gas in there. All right, this one's one of my favorites because if you take any one of your Speed Champion cars, you can make a sunroof for it in under 1 minute. And
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after putting just three Lego pieces together, oh, inside of this thing is cooked. You can attach the moving sunroof to the back and then build around it using the same color. And now we have this super clean sunroof with
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zero studs showing. And it fits in there really good. Also, it's slightly adjustable. And now that just added some detail to my Hellcat and I like it a lot more now. And the best part was this mod was so easy. This upgrade is 500 IQ. For
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this one, if you take a large Lego base plate, you can place it on your table and then build this. Okay, are you going to build it or what? All right, it looks like I'm going to have to build this,
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which is a Lego car dyno. But it's different because it's very easy to make. Just take some Technic pieces and then put them through this hole. After adding some wheels on there, now you can make the base for your car to sit on.
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And then I got these black slope pieces to hook the wheels on. It's looking good and this build takes barely any time to make. So now we can take the Civic and pay the chef to cook up a new tune. But
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you thought I was going to use a Lego motor to make this thing run. Well, I'm actually not because they're way too weak. And I want my Civic to make some crazy power. So that's why I grabbed this drill that spins at over 1,500 RPM.
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This would actually be great if you were bored with your Lego. You can put the Lego Technics piece in the drill and now it can spin with it. So if I attach it to my brand new Lego dyno build that I
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just made in under a few minutes. Let's see how fast this Civic can spin.
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Wow, hopefully something doesn't blow up, but this looks really satisfying. The wheel is spinning at 1,500 RPM. So, this is a great idea if you have a drill and the right LEGO pieces. And it looks like my Civic is making a lot of power
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now. Using a real drill is more fun than the LEGO motor because you can actually control the speed. Okay, the Civic tune is done and it looks like this thing can finally have its own laptop. But, that was probably the fastest I've ever had a
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LEGO piece move. It was pretty crazy. And I can even put this Civic on and because this thing's for front-wheel drive, I can put this other Civic on. Or I can flip the car around and add my Supra. Oh, and I did do this whole thing
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on top of my R34 box. But, here's my other LEGO Civic, but it has a hidden feature. You can take the hood off, which reveals the inline four engine, which is made up of these little hook pieces and the VTEC valve cover. But,
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which Civic do you guys like better? My yellow Civic mock or the Hot Wheels Civic? Okay, another thing you can make for your car in under a few minutes is a real-life size key fob. I made this one,
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which is a red key for a Hellcat. It's the same size as the one in real life and I even printed out the stickers on the back. This thing looks realistic and from far away, it kind of looks real.
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And it's a lot bigger than my LEGO minifig. But, you can also make a key fob for any car you want, which is a cool idea. This is a LEGO rim that came off of my Hot Wheels set and it was an
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extra rim. It's this really cool bronze five-spoke race rim that I can put on a Speed Champions car. After fitting a LEGO tire on it, it can actually attach to any Speed Champions car you want. And actually, it looks really good. I might
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have to do this three more times because the orange and the bronze goes perfect.
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Okay, now [music] it's time for my favorite part of the whole video. This is my knockoff LEGO Mitsubishi Eclipse from Fast and Furious. And after quickly removing the engine and the front bumper, I'm left with an empty space in
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the front of the car. So, I'm going to challenge myself to build an engine with a few pieces in under a few minutes. And you guys should definitely try this.
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Okay, what's a popular engine part? Well, it's a turbo. So, I'll start by building it up and I use these pieces here. It's about the perfect size for a real turbo compared to a minifig. Okay, now for the engine. I don't want an
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ordinary engine. So, I'll stack these gray and blue bricks together to make a rotary engine. Yeah, it's not supposed to be in this car, but I like this.
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Okay, now that I threw that in, I'm missing one more piece, the air [music] intake. So, I use this insane LEGO building technique with this little joystick piece, but not the black part, this red part, which is the bottom. I
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attach it to this hot dog piece, which fits all together. And now if you paint it, it looks like this. But what about cooling? So, I'll make this, which is the grill and the radiator with these massive tubes at the front. So, now when
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you look at it from the back, it looks like a normal Mitsubishi Eclipse with a cool exhaust and tail lights. Also, with the Fast and Furious livery on the side.
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But if you turn it over, you'll notice that it has this crazy rotary engine.
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And for the interior, I use this weird LEGO piece as the shifter. And there's a little compartment near the trunk, which has this, a NOS can, which is made from a Technic piece and then this little piece. And finally, this one of the new
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styles of a Speed Champions rim, but it could also be used as a fan for a car.
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So, that's why I threw it in the front near the radiator. So, now it looks like a fan in front of the rotary engine.
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Each one of these engine parts only took minutes to build. So, you guys should definitely try it out. This new rotary engine looks fire. But I didn't even notice how clean this Mitsubishi looks.
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It looks just like the real one from Fast and Furious. But after turning it around, you'll notice it has a lot more power. Okay, now that this crazy engine build is done, there's a few more like this. You can make a tiny LEGO car made
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from just three pieces. These are pieces you could easily find from your bin like this roller skate piece, this red one, and then the blue one, which is used as the windshield. And now you have the smallest LEGO car in the world, and it
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can even drift. But compared to a LEGO minifig, it looks like a little RC car, which is pretty fun. Now, I still have my orange McLaren F1 here, but if you don't like the rear end like this wing,
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you can make a cool wing like this. It's only made from seven pieces, and I even painted this one. You can attach it using these holes at the bottom, and now it's a detailed wing that you can throw
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on literally any LEGO car. I mean, it's looking pretty good on the McLaren F1, but I'm definitely going to have to keep this car stock. But a car that I can modify a lot using a new wing style is
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my Dodge Viper. So, I made this wing with these hook pieces that clamp on. I even added some stripes on the wing to match with the car. And after attaching it, it flows really good with the shape of the car. So does the stripes on it,
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which you could find in the link of the description in this video. It's a great idea to upgrade your LEGO car. You can make a NOS can using these pieces, and then this flower piece at the top. And
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it also comes in the Skyline set. And one of the easiest mods to add a nice touch to one of your Speed Champions is to add a little license plate. A 1x2 tile is the perfect size for this. So,
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I'll throw it on my Lamborghini Countach. And if you grab not one, but two of these LEGO fork pieces, and not one, but two of these pieces, you can stick them in the middle. Now, the gray pieces look like the engine block, and
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the two forks add up to six little pipes, which looks like an inline six for a tiny LEGO. LEGO binocular pieces in gray can look like a dual exhaust pipe. So can this piece, which comes on some fake LEGO cars made by Hot Wheels.
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But if you own one of these rare LEGO wire pieces, you can do something illegal and bend it a lot. And putting it in this gray piece, using a clip, you can attach it to the bottom of your car.
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And now it looks like a really long dual exhaust pipe. Using just three pieces, you can make a detailed LEGO bucket seat like this, which is a great way to add some interior. Watch one of these two videos right here and subscribe before
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Topics:LEGO carsLEGO Speed ChampionsLEGO modificationsLEGO TechnicLEGO custom buildspop-up headlights LEGOLEGO 6x6 buildLEGO turbo kitLEGO engine buildLEGO car upgrades
