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RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

You look like a monkey and smell like one too
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on Discovery.
Anybody caught this? Looks like a much more down-to-earth and actually kind of educational Monster Garage. Less hype, more actual tech by people who seem to know what they're doing.
 
Isnt that the show where they tried to make a couple of old camaros fly and a couple of hill climbers out of herses (sp?)...

Interesting, but not sure of the usefullness of wings on a camaro :lol:
 
I caught this a couple of weeks ago, they were combining the two front-engine cars as one... interesting to see how the two teams went about it, and how the outcomes were totally different.
 
Last night they first said "go buy a truck".

Once they had the trucks, they THEN told them - OK so you're going to make it into a tank. You got 4 days. Have fun.
1 of the teams had bought a 2wd truck, lol.
 
That Ford half-track that they built was just awesome. I am partial to the brand, but it was still cool as hell. The Dodge tank looked really capable, but just didn't perform.
 
johnski said:
That Ford half-track that they built was just awesome. I am partial to the brand, but it was still cool as hell. The Dodge tank looked really capable, but just didn't perform.
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yeah it all comes down to the cutting brakes, they weren't designed right. If done correctly one track wouldn't move at all, then it could turn alot better.

Actually, the correct way to do it is split the x-fer so you can control the R and L sides independently, reverse one side while forward on the other. Then it can spin in place.
 
johnski said:
That Ford half-track that they built was just awesome. I am partial to the brand, but it was still cool as hell. The Dodge tank looked really capable, but just didn't perform.
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I thought the same thing. I thought the Dodge could have performed, but it seemed to be a good bit of driver error, going off course and getting caught up on the big logs. I also think the track design for the Dodge could have been a little more stable, it was basically a rocking horse with tank tracks.
 
Lou's from Kannapolis, didn't know if ya'll knew that.

His website;

http://garageinsidertv.lefora.com/

I't seems more real to me, they just don't show up randomly and give them a $20K engine like monster garage did. Also, the bike guys on the wheelie thing didn't understand diffs - that was honesty.
 
SSWaters said:
Lou's from Kannapolis, didn't know if ya'll knew that.
His website;
http://garageinsidertv.lefora.com/
I't seems more real to me, they just don't show up randomly and give them a $20K engine like monster garage did. Also, the bike guys on the wheelie thing didn't understand diffs - that was honesty.
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That's why I liked it.
It's hard and fast, you've got $xx to spend, no more, period. Waste it - you're screwed. And yes instead of bein ga bunch of random dudes, these are guys that actually do fab work for a living, but from very different fields - so you can see when they are out of their element, and having to learn on the spot.

I liked that as a viewer b/c I felt like by watching I was actually learning a bit about the tech, they explained a little and you get to see their mistakes.

I just hope the the show can stay this way and not become yet another way that people are just trying to get on TV and make their businesses popular.
 
i caught the one with the hearse's doing the hill climb. one time was trying to put a t-case adapter they bought on the back of their 2wd transmission.:shaking: needless to say it didn't fit. the show blamed it on ordering the wrong part instead of admitting they didn't know they needed a shorter tailshaft or 4wd trans.
 
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