[Rickertsen2]

I'm soo sick of mousetrap powered anything. Right now i'm working on a 4"x6"8" mousetrap powered car for a class that has to drive up a ramp, maneuver over a 6" gap, press a button on one of the walls of the gap, drive down another ramp and stop on a line at the bottom.

Btw. I don't know if its legal in your competition, but if you take the mousetrap apart and just use the spring, you can extract alot more energy from it because you can rotate it further. The stock setup goes only 180 degrees. I've found that they will go at least a full rotation without yeilding. That gives you 4x the available potential energy.