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After bending a couple of parts, my aura of invincibility with my GPM/texalium combo has wanted, and yeah, it really sucks that I had to grind 3 different parts down to fit in my all-GPM car (tie rods, front center shaft holder, and front deck plate all need to be shaved down), but I tell you what: I raced a friend's stock car, and all that extra weight, while requiring more torque to bring it back up to competiveness, makes for one bad hombre. My buddy had 850 mA batteries to my 700s, so he had big boost of power, and after replacing his bearings, he was faster off the line than mine with neo magnets, but almost every time there was contact, I won. I got t-boned at full speed once at the end of a drift, and my car just shifted about 2 inches then took off down the straightaway. One t-bone spun me around, but I recovered from the spinout, but every thing else was basically "Hulk go smash." My front lock plate needs replacing because a no-body wreck with a transmission lying on a shop floor permanently weakened it.
Also, during racing, my friend lost wheels on 4 separate occasions to my one time (resulting from too many wheel spacers + a hard landing on a jump). The thing about the GPM car is that it is both pretty and TOUGH. It's not invincible, and it needs power, but car vs. car, it'd be hard to beat in collisions. Also the handling is very, very nice. Given the other car's weight and later speed advantages, I still won easily most of the time, and it was due to the terrific stability of the car.
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