Scrapheap Challenge

[odbod]

Not really bmw stuff but anyway....

Last year we (myself and a couple of guys from work) entered scrapheap challenge. It is being shown at the moment, you may have seen some of it in the last few weeks.

It's likely that we'll be on tomorrow's show, so if anyone wants some ammunition tune in we might have made fools of ourselves a little bit...

(I'm Simon)

Channel 4, 5.30pm.

[zaust]

Sky set to record fella.

[psychochild187]

tell me who wins,. ill have a bet with the girlfriend !

and win haha

[johnl320]

Sky set to record fella.

+1

[Dezzy]

I will stick it on record as well simon mate

[secondtimelucky]

tell me who wins,. ill have a bet with the girlfriend !

and win haha

priceless!!!

[beemerbird]

I've always wanted to have a go on Scrapheap challange

[magpie]

i watch this every week coz it's a "PROPER JOB"


i'll be watching simon you celebrity

[Nobody_You_Know]

I'll give it a watch, hope you made it entertaining.

Sadly I find the new format to be a massive dissapointment, nowhere near as good as proper Scrapheap.

[poolnoodle]

Big fan of Lisa Rogers - something about the accent
She still on the show - we only seem to get endless reruns here

[Dave_M3]

Sky set to record for me too

[Felix79]

We all know any e30 owner is going to be use to welding and getting somethng that refusses to run , running. Just pray the other team are not BL cars otherwise your fecked.

[odbod]

We're the carbon consolidators we did the blow football challenge and won so should be tonight... We made it to the grand final this year.

[TonyWilson]

Sounds good mate i'll be watching, love scrapheap challenge you must of had a right laugh. Is it true you get told where to find some bits in the heap?

Also being in the navy myself as a favour to the motoring club on base i scrapped all the old engines for them and gave them the money for it so that was my payment for having my E30 in there for 2 months and one of the engines was the same engine the Navy team used in the drilling challenge on scrapheap. The turbo diesel engine was fully complete in this welded boxed frame. Not somethng we see everyday.

Did you keep your build as a solvenier?

[magpie]

not long to go now

[odbod]

The format has changed a lot this year, we got to keep the first build but sold it to fund the semi finals. The last build was somewhat destroyed so not much left after the final!

You'll know when we're on we had the green vitara with no front end.

[EThreezero]

Next week then buddy?

[magpie]

thought you done the blow football?
or was that an older one and your on next week instead


it was pretty crXp this week.

[odbod]

They filmed 2 programs from each challenge, it was all aired in australia earlier in the year, the next blow football is listed as episode 13, there is a rumor that ch4 has cut it down to 10 episodes, but I don't see how they can without messing up the semis and finals as we made it to the final with our builds so I'm sure we'll be on soon.

Best not cut me out put hours and hours into it!

[magpie]

ch4 seem to be making a right balls up of this

[magpie]

were the old bill in the semis?

i didn't like the way today's challenge was won.

[odbod]

nope they weren't, the production team picked the best winners for the semis. The first blow football was a bit of a farce to be honest, no one could moe the ball with their builds so they used smaller balls and gave them fire extinguishers. The proper balls were 4 ft monsters, hopefully you'll see what I mean when ours is aired, we did use the full size ball in ours, needed some serious air flow though...

We got some stick from the other teams for making everything a bit too shiny, but we're engineers by trade so that's just what we do, who uses a tig welder on scrapheap... err, us? but then at least all our build worked (as you'll see in the semis and finals )

[evosport1990]

Well done mate fo getting to the show final, i was on the programme 6 years ago, and we got the the final as well. My SE was even seen in the back ground once.