Off the shelf parts

[studysession]

Who thinks that just a plain ol' off the shelf parts, and gearing and everything with no mods will win this thing???

Who thinks that something that was completely generic would even come close? Just add the cell count to give the RPM's needed and that's it. Can't modify the car in anyway.

I had a dream about this the other night. My car is all off the shelf except for my gear adaptor, chassis and motor plate. Had to move things around to allow for # of cells, so need a better laid out chassis, and a stock setup can not run the gearing I want so I had to make a gear adaptor and motor plate for all that.

Anyhoo - in my dream I did all this and hit a wopping 125MPh which is my goal and some kid pulls out a stock Traxxas Spirit that he put a brushless setup in and used all stock parts and batteries mounted all over the thing. And he beat everyone doing over 140MPh.

I know a Traxxas Spirit would never be able to do it. But the thought now makes me wonder, what is likely hood of using all off the shelf parts, will do the job???? One of those things that makes me go, hhhmmmmmm.....

[mook]

Anythings possible.

[Chris LaPanse]

I would highly highly highly doubt that an off the shelf car with a crazy power system could even hold together at 100+ mph, much less win. But, as mook said, anything's possible.

[Interstate]

Well, I've got an SNRS4 that'll do 84.6 on the calculator, so something like 70 in real world digits. All off the shelf parts, and all parts made for that car except the engine mounts; all 99% of them. But with some different pullies and diffs, maybe a stronger engine, it could do over 100 without any custom made parts.

Something with non-custom parts winning the contest? I'd say not; most manufacturer aren't creating parts for such high speeds and therefore just aren't made.