Mythbusters Fury!

[OzJavelin]

*FINALLY* saw the Mythbusters episode with the pole-vaulting Fury!!

Not that I'm biased or anything ('69 Dodge Phoenix, '70 Plymouth Fury 'vert), but how indestructable is the old 383/Torqueflite-powered C-Body Mopar ... MANY attempts of 35mph drive-to-reverse with no ill effects. Even when they finally punched the tailshaft into the "pot-hole", it threw back into the trunk, but the old girl kept on rolling .. and running. A proud day for old Mopars

[johnydep]

Everyone knows that only a Dodge 440 can do that.

The Blues Brothers proved it _2:

[XD 351 Ute]

Should have done it to a piece of Jap crap.
The old girl looked in reasonable nick!

Ed

[Barry_v]

they destroy some nice cars :(

entertaining though

[Kryton]

never ceases to amaze what they can get for free.
"we need a cement truck Adam"
"i know a guy that has a few that we could get for nothing"
"how about a cherry picker?"
"yep can get one of them too."
"adam, we need another cement truck"
"can do"

[-jjM-]

dam right, an on top of that they buy explosives like no 2morw, that cement track had more explisives than cement, its like they have there own personaly TNT qwik-e-mart

got to love them thow, how i envy them

[Qwikcorty]

i thought boxing a tiger shark, on the nose! in the ocean was pretty funny! this show is gold, i havent missed an episode since i first noticed it.

[big_pete]

i was in tears when i saw the car and what they were going to do to it,
it was such a beautiful car

[LUXO_8]

haha yeah that was a good episode!
they wreck heaps of stuff....
cars, boats, cherry-pickers

[xdc351]

Sensational show. But I'm not 100% convinced of the busted ruling on the pole vaulting fury episode tonight. Only because I'm sure given the right circumstances and a heavy duty tailshat like what resides under most race cars where tailshaft loops are required that it could indeed flip a car. Say a much more powerful car that weighs half as much and the tailshaft catching on something *above* the ground....

Still a damn good to watch them work!

[TIRED6]

Some of thier myths are not BUSTED. I got a few black label cans of cola for a long trip an sat them in the back window of my dads EF. They were left in direct sunlight for a few hours. After that we went for a drive, just as we got to the servo dad took off from the lights and bang. COLA allover the back seat.

They had to heat it to a temperature in a non-moving oven before it exploded. But they were trying to blow it in a car.

[Gammaboy]

I know someone wose mate wrote off an immaculate HG(?) monaro because he dropped the front uni....
although I have 3 words to say
"Moi Grande Boom!"

[MITCHAY]

What can be better than gettin paid to blow up sh*t. I mean doin it anyways is good but gettn paid for it? HEAVEN lol

[Captain Stubing]

Originally Posted by xdc351

Sensational show. But I'm not 100% convinced of the busted ruling on the pole vaulting fury episode tonight. Only because I'm sure given the right circumstances and a heavy duty tailshat like what resides under most race cars where tailshaft loops are required that it could indeed flip a car. Say a much more powerful car that weighs half as much and the tailshaft catching on something *above* the ground....

Still a damn good to watch them work!

It was a great show to watch, but they obtained the exact model car that the myth pertained to... I know, a Japanese equivalent would launch itself in the air...

[MITCHAY]

I wouldnt mind seeing a blinged up Lancer flyin through the air

[blackers10]

lancers dont have tail shafts .. lol

[OzJavelin]

Originally Posted by xdc351

Sensational show. But I'm not 100% convinced of the busted ruling on the pole vaulting fury episode tonight. Only because I'm sure given the right circumstances and a heavy duty tailshat like what resides under most race cars where tailshaft loops are required that it could indeed flip a car. Say a much more powerful car that weighs half as much and the tailshaft catching on something *above* the ground....

Still a damn good to watch them work!

I agree about the heavy-duty tailshaft (the one from the Fury bent "a bit"!!), but I'm not sure about the higher horsepower? This is all to do with momentum isn't it? .. and a '67 Fury moving at even moderate speeds generates a lot of momentum. Their problem was the tailshaft wouldn't catch in pothole at higher speed ...

Did you like the part where the Fury took off out-of-control, ploughing thru a chainlink fence with Adam sitting in the back seat!!

[ O/T: I had a '65 Dodge Phoenix which punched a petrol pump 3feet sideways (long story .. don't ask!) and it slightly bent the bumper! ]

[FordFan86]

I'm still waiting for the ep where adam uses kari's bum for a model of something...
I find it great that if they can't prove something, they'll blow it up anyway
I missed the last part of the shark ep... but what was the final verdict on shooting a tank of oxygen while it was in the sharks mouth? busted i'd say....

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by FordFan86

I'm still waiting for the ep where adam uses kari's bum for a model of something...
I find it great that if they can't prove something, they'll blow it up anyway
I missed the last part of the shark ep... but what was the final verdict on shooting a tank of oxygen while it was in the sharks mouth? busted i'd say....

Indeed. They shot it from a few angles, it just proprelled itself around inside the shipping container. So they loaded it up with C4 and blew the sh!t out of it.

Great show. Saw the tailshaft one as well, i dont think 35mph was sufficent.

[EDManual]

yeah, funny how they still blew up the scuba tank with C4! That worked!!

[Polyal]

ah crap..can you download these episodes?

[PULLY6]

Imagine it at 55mph (highway speed in the US) over a rough road... it would have to flip the car! But it'd very difficult to duplicate in a controlled environment.

[XR Martin]

Actually I had an idea on how you could do the tailshalf myth at higher speed which would be guaranteed to work.
Get the car to drive up a kerb/step at speed (with a ramp for each wheel) drop the tailshaft before approaching the kerb and bang, guaranteed the shaft would wedge itself into the kerb.

[AuFairlaneV8]

Originally Posted by blackers10

lancers dont have tail shafts .. lol

la - lc lancers did

[Tote]

Re The tailshaft, I rolled an XT ute that way.
I lost an axle at 100Km/h, dropping the diff u bolts onto the dirt. When they eventually broke the diff moved back, the tailshaft dropped out of the gearbox, dropped on the ground and pivoted the ute onto it's roof. Not and experience I'd like to repeat. This was on a gravel road so that may have given the tailshaft better grip.

Regards,
Tote

[MITCHAY]

Lol what i meant about the blinged up lancers wasnt related to the tailshaft thingy hahaha. I just wouldnt mind a coupla of blocks of C4 underneath it. Actually wouldnt mind see some blocks strapped to the foundations of the Mitsubishi plant all together lol.

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[FPV GT]

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[Mechan1k]

Originally Posted by blackers10

lancers dont have tail shafts .. lol

I know a lot that do.

[xdc351]

Originally Posted by OzJavelin

I agree about the heavy-duty tailshaft (the one from the Fury bent "a bit"!!), but I'm not sure about the higher horsepower? This is all to do with momentum isn't it? .. and a '67 Fury moving at even moderate speeds generates a lot of momentum. Their problem was the tailshaft wouldn't catch in pothole at higher speed ...

Did you like the part where the Fury took off out-of-control, ploughing thru a chainlink fence with Adam sitting in the back seat!!

[ O/T: I had a '65 Dodge Phoenix which punched a petrol pump 3feet sideways (long story .. don't ask!) and it slightly bent the bumper! ]

The higher horsepower reference is due to higher horsepower cars requiring much stronger tailshafts, therefore they would do less bending and more lifting. If it managed to catch on a raised area of the road then who knows what would happen. But they were there to bust that specific myth and did it well as always. I certainly won't be removing the tailshaft loop out of my XD anytime soon though!

[Bossxr8]

I can't see how that myth was busted, it lifted the car at least a metre and a half in the air. At a higher speed and the right conditions I think it is certainly possible to totally flip it.
Did anyone else see that dude try to show off to the chicks by bunny hopping that bike over the little red wagon, and eating sh*t big time right on his face. What a classic.