ALi-B

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Are those things they all built just mad or what?


I love that V8 Trike and that Rolls Royce 16-cylinder diesel tractor thing. The boat thing looks like a US military DUK

The beetle with a diesel engine is bit lame, but not a bad effort seeing it's a girly team

...and they're all road legal...how cool is that?


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NotoriousREV

I NEED that tractor thing

J1nxy

The tractor thing is a monster...if it ever hit anything they'd need an electron microscope to find the bits....what a great idea

Steve

ajm

The tractor is a praaaaaaper job!

Did they say what the engine came out of? The last time I saw a Rolls Royce diesel like that was an inline 12 cylinder in an armoured personnel carrier.

ALi-B

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Dunno what that engine is off.... a Tank perhaps??

Or perhaps a tank carrier?

I would have thought it would have been a military engine...but would I be right in saying that the MOD paint all their engines blue? or was that just the MOD Land Rovers?

Otherwise I would have said it was some sort of genset or marine engine...but that would'nt have a 10 speed gearbox would it?....I think I'll get googling

Certainly shifted quite well anyway!

ALi-B

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Proper job!!!



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DavidBrown

It's gonna be fun in the water challenges... Titanic anyone ?

Dream Weaver

Originally, they said Massey for the engine which would be for Massey Fergusson tractors or harvesters i would guess.

That guy was a nutter - loved when he wiped out the clothes lines in the garden

ajm

I dunno, I thought they said the engine was made by Rolls Royce?

must pay more attention....

DavidBrown

Or was that just a Rolls Royce cam cover ?

OllyK

Didn't see it, but the military don't pain the engines, well not recently anyway. Used drive, operate and service the Leyland DAF DROPS trucks, nice had a Perkins Eagle engine in it and we used to be able pull 80 Tonne! IIRC it was circa 16 litre, which is not that unusual for a truck, tanks are way bigger than that. Think the Challenger used to have an engine that was pretty much the same as an inter city 125 train.

Goochie

Old fire engines often used to have those Rolly engines in them. They sound lovely!

ajm

LOL @ the bloke from the Barley Pickers - he has just blown up the diesel engine!

The bloke is a nutter!!!

ALi-B

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PSML

"Oi know...let's do a prapar jaab 'an tinker wi thee guvanor"

bad bad bad idea

Last time I did that I killed the works transit - Well at least it would go above 80mph ....'till the one injector pump seized

ajm

PMSL at the plumes of smoke that came out of it as it over revved its **** off with Mr "Paraaaper Job" trying to stop the engine by smothering the air intake, another one trying to disconnect the fuel and the rest screaming and running away from it!

When they asked him how his team were taking the news that he had just destroyed the engine he said:

"well aaactually they bin taken it naaat too bad, bin quite good to I...... dunno wot they bin sayin bout I beyoind moi back moind!"

ajm

Ok.... so they didn't manage to fix the engine.... so what did they do?.......





fitted a BIGGER engine! Praaaaper Jaaab!!!!

ALi-B

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They swapped the engine?? WTF did they put in this time?

I missed the first half (i.e the building bit). I'm not happy about it either

Anyone know if it's repeated or on one of the digital/sky channels ??

ajm

They didn't go into too much detail unfortunately, but I would imagine they used a unit from an artic or something. It may not actually be bigger capacity but they definately said it had more power because the expert was worried they may snap a drive shaft!

I also noticed a bit of staging going on in this episode, because their vehicle was definately on brand new big tractor tires before, yet when they arrived at this round they had mysteriously changed to road tires and all teams were "desparately foraging for 4wd tires". Then, as luck would have it, it showed them carrying 4 brand new tractor tires back to their area!

Channel 4 - busted!

Paulo P

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They have gone up 320 bhp now It flew round that course How funny when it went through that tree?!

ajm

Yeah it p!ssed all over that 4wd course, mind you the taxi was pretty impressive too!

psml at the way they banned the nutter from going near the engine this time!

dsmith

Give the boat thing was based on a Range rover to start with - I'm baffled why they didnt make it 4WD from day one ?

Deano

OllyK

The donor chassis was from an ambulance, they fitted the Range Rover engine after the fact. Hence why it had the transfer box still. But I take the point, about making it 4wd from the start. Amazed me that 3 of them made such a botch of it when they had half the components there already when Mr. Nutter from the Barley Pickers converted a 2WD truck to 4WD single handed.

ALi-B

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I think the Boat boys mechanicals came from their Range Rover...which ate the front diff/halfshafts when they tried towing the ambulance with it on the first program. So that's why it did'nt have 4wd.

You right, it shouldn't stop them making it 4wd in the first place...not as if a Land Rover front axle is a rare sight is it??

And I bet the input or lay shaft went on the gearbox whilst going up that hill (typical Range Rover gearbox ) 4wd or not - it would have still broke!

ajm

Well, the Taxi won it in the end, and I think they deserved to over all! Also big respect to the Barley Pickers for managing to make their 7 ton tracter float!

The Boat Boys were a load of bollox as usual, it was painfully obvious that their vehicle was never going to float!