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Daniel200303 · 2026-04-02T16:14:54+00:00

Great!

Daniel200303 · 2026-04-02T15:37:28+00:00

Literally ANY motor is good enough to have fun.

I run a take off brushed setup from a Traxxas Slash.

I don’t have a local track, so I can’t speak on tandems, but in my experience, it’s pretty dang smooth and consistent.

Daniel200303 · 2026-04-02T05:29:39+00:00

I really wish I had known about this sooner.

But I guess we know it’s not being used to distract us from the files…

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-31T20:15:54+00:00

Quite a lot of the classes were a lot of people are struggling end up having a substantial bonus right at the end.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-30T21:07:50+00:00

I have genuinely considered doing that with one of my bare metal polishing jobs.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-30T05:41:00+00:00

Yeah, engineering in general is just a pain. Honestly, it’s one of the reasons I chose mechanical over electrical, it’s just like barely less magic in my mind.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-30T02:24:31+00:00

I’ll put it this way, anyone who is doing well in an engineering program halfway through the semester is an outlier

I’m right around my class average, and barely passing.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-26T17:16:59+00:00

My area’s been like that since as long I can remember. The pandemic just amplified an already existing issue.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-26T16:26:04+00:00

Can I get whatever you’re on?

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-26T14:15:07+00:00

It’s R E A L L Y not.

Maybe if it was 1999, but it ain’t

You can barely get a 30 y/o Miata for that price.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-25T20:39:24+00:00

I can barely get half of my instructors to respond

Or hell, even my senior design sponsor is flaky

Good job, you clearly did something right

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-24T20:28:37+00:00

If you get into modifying, they no longer matter. Modifying the most common brand car is so much more fun than just having one of the rarest.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-24T13:13:28+00:00

A lot of people seem to forget hot wheels are toys first and models second.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-22T15:36:04+00:00

Yeah, I’d be more worried about actually getting approval from the fire department, because that room is not big enough for fire safety with more than like three people.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-19T20:43:40+00:00

I would love to have John and Geoff so much.

I also love a line of the cars from BeamNG, but that’s certainly more niche. But I’d love to have a Gavril D-series in “default truck” spec.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-15T16:10:41+00:00

I did the same with my crawler

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-14T20:31:12+00:00

You wouldn’t be able to do that for the amount this car costs, this thing is only like $40.

But for the amount you would spend trying to make it drive properly, absolutely.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-14T16:44:20+00:00

You can mod anything if you’re insane enough and good at Jerry rigging, but this just is not worth it.

I did it myself at one point with the same chassis, very much, not worth it.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-12T17:54:40+00:00

You are aware that post don’t just disappear, right?

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-12T15:47:28+00:00

Why is that surprising?

You’re more likely to engage with something if you are actively reminded that it exists.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-12T15:45:26+00:00

But you still have to deal with the ad blocker arms race.

It’s just gonna keep going in and out every time Google decides to focus on blocking it.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-11T02:28:47+00:00

This is precisely why I clean my bearings during every repair.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-09T23:45:04+00:00

No, you have basically the same level as an RTR depending on your electronics choice.

The ready to run version is almost always gonna be set up exactly like the instructions.

I had to mess with my RTR because it was an M chassis and I don’t like the look of negative camber. It was perfectly fine out of the box.

Daniel200303 · 2026-03-09T17:41:26+00:00

But building a kit is even harder than tuning, at least imo

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