I went ahead and bought the remainder of the parts although I ended up needing to stop at 2 Radioshacks to get everything. I went ahead and put together some wiring adapters and finished hooking everything up. I recalibrated the steering and had to reverse the direction of the ESC through the remote, although I could have simply switched the colored wires. I used velcro to hold the battery cover in place and after putting the cover over the electronics and securing the extra antenna wire, it was ready to go. So I went ahead and took it outside to get an idea of it's capabilities. It raced just fine and was able to go very far. In fact, I was only limited by how far I could see the car. I think it went around 10-15 MPH by comparing it to other (real) cars going through the parking lot. Unfortunately about a minute or two into starting racing I crashed into a pole and snapped the front bumper into 3 pieces, which is mostly cosmetic anyways. I was able to race it up curbs, on grass and accidentally went through a puddle a time or 2. The only thing that stopped it was if it crashed into some bushes, which caused the wheels to become jammed in the branches from the inertia. All in all I'm pretty happy with the car. I think it's probably the best one I've ever had. The next steps are going to be fixing the bumper and starting on the main robotics board, which will probably start with me making a breakout board for the processor, which hopefully shouldn't be too challenging. I also took a bunch of pictures available for viewing below.

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