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scrapheap challange back tonight
Aboardman - 27/4/08 at 03:53 PM

scrapheap challange back tonight 5.45 channel 4 tonight.

tonights show attempt to break the programmes speed record.

mookaloid - 27/4/08 at 03:56 PM

speedyxjs - 27/4/08 at 03:58 PM

Great, cheers

sprouts-car - 27/4/08 at 04:02 PM

Any way to get it online?

Benzine - 27/4/08 at 04:46 PM

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Originally posted by sprouts-car
Any way to get it online?


4 on demand probably. I want to watch it but I'm in the garage at the moment, first time i've had motivation to work on the car in ages so I'm not going inside yet, will watch later

macspeedy - 27/4/08 at 05:39 PM

what crappy engines!

Volvorsport - 27/4/08 at 05:45 PM

that was a poor showing .

BenB - 27/4/08 at 05:47 PM

Pants Missed it!!! 4OD here we come!!

adithorp - 27/4/08 at 06:00 PM

Who'd try and build a car with an ancient old thing like a PINTO?

adrian

paulmw - 27/4/08 at 06:11 PM

<--- His face has improved since his red dwarf days

Mr Whippy - 27/4/08 at 06:32 PM

hopefully no more pathetic catapaults (god I miss my spell checker, only a basic one on the phone ), lost count of number of times they had to make them, every one as bad as the last...oh and it's thrown the ball 20ft and shattered into pieces how predictable.

more planes, a spaceshuttle perhaps or nuclear reactor

paulf - 27/4/08 at 09:14 PM

Theres catapults next week, the trailer at the end showed them launching scooters with them.
The cars this week were poor , the reliant in its original form could have been persuaded to beat 80mph.Its all rigged anyhow , i know someone who was in a team some years back and most of the work is redone after the teams have built there project by a safety team.Most times they do any thing that should go fast there is a problem that prevents it from working correctly.
Paul

DarrenW - 27/4/08 at 09:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by paulf
Theres catapults next week, the trailer at the end showed them launching scooters with them.
The cars this week were poor , the reliant in its original form could have been persuaded to beat 80mph.Its all rigged anyhow , i know someone who was in a team some years back and most of the work is redone after the teams have built there project by a safety team.Most times they do any thing that should go fast there is a problem that prevents it from working correctly.
Paul



Yeah me for one.

It is engineered, of course it is. It is TV after all. But it is more relaxed and organic than youd think. Ive jumped around that scrap yard in a vane attempt to find specific materials - nothing there. After a short break found the exact required materials very easily. Were they planted - who knows!!!

To be honest i found it an awesome experience and defo one to do. Hard work. In fatc insamely hard work but ive been in the back od chrightons soft top land rover on the beach so surely not all that bad.


I was part of the driller thrillers team making land yachts.

trogdor - 28/4/08 at 03:56 PM

were you the team that set fire to the sail? i remember that episode! unless its been done again since then!

zilspeed - 28/4/08 at 04:08 PM

Last night's episode really was rubbish.

Weld two pintos together end on end and wonder why it doesn't work.

Stick a tiny little turbo onto a standard Ford V6 without altering the fueling at all and wonder why it doesn't work.

Here's hoping it gets better.

clairetoo - 28/4/08 at 05:05 PM

If they had just chopped the body off that camper and put some bigger wheels on it I`m sure it would have done more than 82mph......
And as for disconnecting the wrong engine - a quick look at the plugs would have told them which engine was working !
Dissapointed , to say the least

DarrenW - 28/4/08 at 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by trogdor
were you the team that set fire to the sail? i remember that episode! unless its been done again since then!


That was the other team we were competing against. Ours was the twin sail job. We got anialated in the final race. The filming made it look closer for the purposes of TV!! The megolomaniacs land yacht collapsed just after the finish line as well, but the won fair and square by a mile. At least they went onto be series champions.