ITEM# 1 a water pump made from a 4cyl. engine driven by a v8 engine ITEM#2construct a catapult,on a running vehicle,and compete either for destroying something or for just distance

ITEM#3 utilizing 2 transmissions construct a high speed top end speed vehicle

all of these projects could be completed in the alloted time frame

-- dennis j. kelley (kelleys_search_and_rescue@msn.com.), December 08, 2000

Answers

I dont think Junkward vehicles and highspeeds are a good mix if your trying to keep a good level of safty, maby constructing a offroad vehicle for a romp around a narly road would be run, i think the catapult idea is exellent.

-- Lorduss (lorduss@mauigateway.com), December 11, 2000.

Dennis,

Your suggestions all seem to be solutions rather than problems, and all the problems they solve have already been done--although some of them haven't aired yet.

They've already done a water-pumping problem, a wall-destruction problem, a throwing-for-distance problem, and a high-speed race problem (a couple of different ways!)--all in season 3. See for yourself:

http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/junkyard/episodes.html

-- Derek Jensen (djensen@kconline.com), December 11, 2000.

they need to build machines capable of doing a destruction derby.

-- julie burgess (junebug4him@hotmail.com), December 15, 2000.

your momma

-- georgia missouri (bethfuller@myhouse.org), December 15, 2000.

make a flying machine that can lanch off water and carry at least one member of the team maybe carry all of them and also land but it must lanch off a engine.

-- michael songer (tigerpumkin@aol.com), December 17, 2000.

How about a machine that can lift the most weight a/o stack heavy stuff in an alotted time?

-- Eric Silkowski (ej_57@yahoo.com), December 23, 2000.

maybe a parachute that maybe a 5,000 lb weight can use to hit the ground with less than a given amount of force. the problems would be size of the parachute, shape, the cables used, a way to remotly open the parachute and strenth of the material. maybe you cant have it drop to slow either it has to touch the ground in a certain amount of time, or it has to stay in the air for more than a minute or some crap. something using a parachute.

-- Sean Durkin (seandurkin@msn.com), December 28, 2000.

How about having them build a hovercraft?

-- tom (geo5370@aol.com), December 30, 2000.