This LEGO Barra Turbo is awesome

This is why we love the internet, or at least how it can surface awesome car-related things like this.

A video uploaded to YouTube that we spotted over the weekend shows the result of one man’s hard work – a Ford Barra Turbo built entirely out of LEGO.

Sure, it’s not at full-sized 4.0-litre scale, but that almost makes it more impressive, especially given it’s made entirely out of standard LEGO pieces.

If you’ve ever tried to make anything small and mildly complicated with LEGO, especially if it’s got moving parts, you’ll know how difficult it is without instructions.

And there are no instructions for building a Ford straight six out of LEGO. What’s more impressive is that, with an electric motorised unit attached, the cylinders actually ‘fire’.

Though he concedes that the cylinder firing order is incorrect, the fellow who put the engine together did think ahead while building the gearbox, which makes the cylinders move slowly enough to be noticeable.

Oh, yeah, and there’s a gearbox. While the engine itself is impressive enough, the LEGO Barra also has a “6-speed ZF” which acts as a halfway point between the electric motor that moves the engine’s parts.

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Obviously, without fluids, fuel, exhaust, and for numerous other reasons (the most obvious of which being that it’s tiny and made of plastic), there’s little else happening in the model aside from the pistons.

But one more little detail the builder got right is that the turbo spins. Our hats are off to this wizard of engines and LEGO, whoever he is.