Answering Questions About Our Battle Damage Car

Summary

In this article, we will be discussing the Battle Damage car and answering some of the most frequently asked questions about it. We will be talking about the different versions of the car, the custom parts, the motor, the armor, and the camera used to film it.

The Different Versions of the Car
Custom Parts and 3D Printing
The Motor
Armor
Filming the Car
Conclusion

The Different Versions of the Car

The car that you see on the show is actually the third or fourth version. The first one died quickly and took the longest to build. We underestimated how strong the bottom pieces needed to be to keep the car on the track. When we did the first test, everything shattered on the bottom and it just slid off. We then went to a big box hardware store, threw out everything old, and built a new, much stronger car made of steel. The motor is spring-loaded now, so it should have tension but not break the motor mounts like it did before.

Custom Parts and 3D Printing

We modeled some custom parts and then 3D printed them. It all looked really cool, and we even have the names written on each section. These are just like elbow brackets.

The Motor

Each motor is meant to power a giant RC plane, like a military drone. The original goal was for the car to spin around 30 miles per hour, which is terrifying. And when you watch it spinning at 10 miles per hour, that’s pretty scary. So, to imagine it going twice as fast as that, what you see on the show is probably those motors and that power plant working at like 20. So they could go a lot faster.

Armor

We knew from the beginning that we had to armor this thing. The skeleton of the armor is heavy-duty L bracket. On top of that is 3 8-inch plexiglass. When you’re filming at those high speeds, it can only capture four seconds. And if you’re off by two seconds, then the shot’s ruined, which happened. We had to make sure that the armor was strong enough to protect the camera and the people filming it.

Filming the Car

We needed a $50,000 super-scientific specialty phantom camera that we rented. It’s so ridiculous that it doesn’t even have buttons on it. You have to connect a laptop, and that’s the only way to hit record. Finally, we realized we could wirelessly connect the camera to the laptop. We went from strapping a $700 five-pound laptop with its ass hanging out of this car to a $100 quarter-pound little piece of electronics that’s wirelessly transmitting. This has never been done before, so it was just a guess that it would work.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading this article about our Battle Damage car. We hope that we have answered some of your questions about it. We appreciate the support you guys have given us, and there have been so many amazing suggestions. We want to battle test the things that you want to see battle tested, so leave them in the comments below here on the video. Tweet us and Facebook us and all those things. We’ll see you next time. Thanks for watching.