Scrappy Races?

I love the bit "now they've got the tricky job of finding the correct replacement diff" showing two of them heading purposefully towards another Rangie in the yard....

Alex

It was entertaining. I like the way that they bumped the stalled v8 off the running one. useful that!

The 'competion' was pretty non existant though- I thought the buggy might get further.

Nevillef

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Yup, thats true. Actually I was disappointed with the circuit too - just a duplicate of the hill climb in yorkshire really, thereby giving the chaos crew a huge advantage

But the tartan starlats really messed up. They should have just hit the mud at full throttle, they'd have got further definately!

The scary thing is a Series 1,2 or 3 with PTO would probably have won every heat! Good show though

If you asked me, thier failure was certain from the start. They just didn't seem to have a clue, and looking at the way some of them were carrying on seemed to confirm it. Particularly that bit with them kicking the bodywork to remove it.

Alex

did u hear about the car with wooden wheels?................. it wooden go oh dear (sorry)

Hehehe. Mind you, that was such a shame, I'd have loved to get my hands on that vehicle before they did that to it.

Alex

lol! you'd need AA membership thats the only way it would move

It would be good show still if the Chaos Crew could represent England against Scotland, Wales and Nr Ireland in a UK Scrappy version.

regards avid watcher from the start and learner.

In article , Connor T writes

It is hard to think of a better all round platform to build a vehicle for that task.

But I guess it would be boring if everyone used a LR as a base vehicle.

Agreed, It's always more interesting when they do something mad/out of the ordinary. Makes me want to watch it more to see how they do.

-- Jon

Well to be fair - for just about all the tasks in hand, any 4x4 would have been a huge advantage!

I thought it would have been good if they'd have finished off with a lap around a track, that would have been interesting! Gawd knows what would happen if you got the stretched mini sideways!

But bear in mind the rules state that you can't use a 4x4 as such. Chaos Crew got around that by fitting two engines when required.

I agree though that starting with a good tough chassis/drive chain/engine(s) onto which you add niceities like seats and body work gives you an enormous advantage.

Pity Cops 'n Bodgers didn't keep the entire engine/drive chain from the Dodge, bit blooming daft expecting the propshaft from a piddly little estate handle the grunt from a big V8...

I thought they used the whole running gear from the Dodge so what happened to the prop!!!!!!!!!! Looked as though it was welded to the diff :-(((( but then I suppose that's the Bodgers bit

Rich

wasn't a carlton back axle

Donno but in Ep 1 they clearly showed/explained that they only took the engine and axle. Even if the shaft was to long you could shorten it. Just cut a section out and end weld a close fitting tube over the join, maybe even weld the ends together first and grind off so a sleeve would fit.

Would that be road legal though? Another big plus for using the LR chassis no stringent tests to pass...

On or around Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:08:26 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

I had a rear prop on the 110 like that, to make it 2" longer.