How To Build A Sleeper Drift Quad! 

And after 6 1/2 years of building this channel with Ethan, I finally started learning to weld…

We should make industrial strength crab glasses...

Love it or hate it, you can't deny how much fun an electric setup can be. The instant torque is so addictive!

Ethan looking on like a proud father as Ethan risking life and limb is bombing around at breakneck speed on a sketch overpowered mini quad. PREMIUM 😎.

I love that Edwin does electric builds while Ethan does petrol at the same time 💯💯

19:10 when you free spin it, it sounds a bit like the world's tiniest street bike bouncing off the highest limiter known to man 😂

Nice to see Edwin doing Ethan stuff for a change

it doesn't get talked about enough how much the tunes add to these videos. whomever is producing these chill jams, well done.

Mod suggestion to this quad: extend the rear axle and put the motor directly there, it will give more space for battery inside the frame and you won't need to worry about chain tension over a pivot.

I worked with robots for years and am currently a lithium battery technical specialist, so take these as you will, but I hope they can possibly help with the monster chopper. If you're having an electrical signal issue, and you're not finding the issue just by stripping the wires, try checking your crimps on your pins. Make sure you're not slightly over shielding, and do a slight pull test to check for suspect loose crimps. Either of those things can give an intermittent issue that comes and goes. The other thing I'd recommend checking out, is your sockets you plug into each other, for loose connections, a shift in a gasket that doesn't allow you to seat properly, a pin that isn't latching into the seat it should lock into, and it'll move as the connection heats up, and vibration can seperate it, or discoloration on those pins. Hopefully this helps you, good luck with figuring out your gremlin.

Carbon Fiber filled PLA is NOT stronger than ordinary PLA!!! It has weaker layer adhesion! However, it is much more wear resistant. I suggest print most of parts that would not be hot from PETg and parts that you need to be near hot stuff from ABS. If you want more impact resistance - print all with ABS. p.s. 3D printed parts are NOT aluminum and they're not injection-molded plastic, so always make them thicker.

10:15 "it does make my eyes sore" I about choked on the sandwich im eating 😂

damn dude. Edwin stepped tf up and is like "i could learn that why not" hell yeah.

You take a $400 cheap quad. Add a $5,000 battery, controller, motor combo. Just for the wheelies! Love it

21:14 - That made me feel warm and all that. Respect to bro's out there. You can't replace them

as someone who did welder training for a little bit, this is the best teacher I've ever seen

I love the childish smile at 52:30 because he looks so happy while saying that’s only half of the power

I love when yall are actually out just ripping the projects. We need some more videos of yall actually out playing on the bikes and toys you have built. Just seeing the joy of your creation!

I did a build very similar to this using an old rusty tao tao quad and a 1800w motor about a year ago. Man I wish I had a plasma table to make parts like that. To call the frame of my quad crooked is an understatement. Kids love it, though.

I like the way you keep a spoon in the freezer right next to the ice cream.... :) well prepared! lol.

love how quick it went from "lets test it" to absolutely bombing the thing down the dirt road absolutely intranced by the tiny power

That thing is sick. You guys should make a "builders kit" of all the custom brackets you made, and sell em. So a guy could buy everything and weld it together.

The POV of you driving that thing looks nuts, it’s like one of those fpv drones

"Silent butt Deadly" Yall are on one this time 😂😂

At 36:00 you said "it is so crazy you can watch the steel melt". I took TIG welding in college and the most important thing I learned is WATCH THE WELD POOL AND LEARN TO MAKE IT DO WHAT YOU WANT. As for tiny high power controllers, there is a limit to how small they can get. That limit is thermal. Some small controllers specify the mass of heatsink they are required to be bolted to. While airflow is great, chunky aluminum in that airflow is ideal.

If I had that level of shop 6pm would never be the end of my days. I’d have a bed In there

The unadulterated happiness of Edwin flying on that thing smile worthy!

I'm here to tell you I tig weld food grade stainless every night and I use a bench grinder and drill to sharpen all of my tungsten lol awesome build!

Edwin's love of building tiny things from jank and sketch makes for infinity enjoyable viewing.

18:51 It literally sounds like an angry kitten 😂

I love watching Edwin giving his best lol. I can relate to him as a guy that has worked with his hands a lot, but has never fabricated anything. If it was me I would probably do about as well or worse!

Stop teasing us with the fire truck 🚒 and got it done 👍🏼

Hi guys, greetings from NE Scotland! Just to say my Sturgis T-shirt arrived this morning and I'm well impressed! Great quality & superb graphics! Thank you!👍👏👏🇯🇵♥️🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

ill build this next paycheck

I wish I had someone like you guys teaching my metals class back when I was in highschool. That's a whole lot cooler than the sheet metal tool box they made us all make.

Day 1 of asking for the fire truck/toy hauler build❤

I have an A1 mini myself. It sits just to the left of my monitor on the desk and I love watching it go. So many little things around my house are printed.

As those of us in the 3D printed pew-pew community have learned, carbon fiber PLA is actually generally weaker than normal PLA. For something like that, you might want glass fiber reinforced ABS or Nylon.

For 3d printing: use cubic infill and at least 6 walls, as well as top and bottom for structural parts... Preferably more walls. Cubic infill makes tetrahedral shapes which help disipate forces from any direction to the walls and top and bottom. The wall loops make more difference than the infill apparently. Also, avoid sharp corners that's where cracks start. (this is why airplane windows are not square)

5:53 if you had your phone in your back pocket while you were welding it wouldn’t have got messed up…. How ya like them apples…..

Check the infill settings and ramp them up, also small fillets in the design instead of any 90's inside or out. And close the door to the printer, the heat inside being stable and warm helps with layer adhesion. Love the build!!!

I honestly wish Will was there to ride the quad... because reasons. 💥

I speak for all 2.59M when I say, “WE’RE READY FOR THE FIRETRUCK RESTO” always look forward to the videos. Keep it going 💪🏼

Nice! Do more silly stuff like this!

When you write on dirty steel or clean steel for that matter use a silver streak welder's pencil. They are definitely the best for riding on metal

Imma need that 😭😭

As much as dirt road rally style racing will always win my heart, that bit at the end where you're doing figure-8s in the garage, makes me really think you guys need a flat tarmac track, to take all the micro machines out on with slicks and race like a real mini-F1 circuit.

I would love to build this but no money…

41:01 You literally took me back to 1990s, and you make me hear myself screaming with my wooden cart flashing down to the valley.

Under a day gang 👇

Ethan, I went to welding school. We used bench grinders for the tungstens. Just, a specific one dedicated to tungsten grinding to avoid contamination.

Sad that it was Wills project, I miss him in the videos. And the fact he’s never shown in the cuts of the flashbacks, seems like a f-you to Will

I love seeing Steven getting to use the new rides as well 😅

I love the googly eyes on the machinery

Wow I could totally use this as a mobility scooter. Legs aren't so good any more and what blast it would be to run to the store on that bad boy. Another cool build.

I love seeing the shells of past projects, both completed or never completed, just scattered around your property with missing parts reused for other projects

Not sure how many of you good folks know this but Edwin has a RU-vid channel of his own and its Premium 👍👍

Dudes I love these electric motor videos. My job is to write the programs to control all sorts of motors to do all sorts of things in machines and industrial facilities and I love seeing different technologies like this that are kinda adjacent but way more fun. It's a mario kart. You made an irl mario kart. 😂

That thing was so much faster than I expected. Good job

I love seeing you two guys working in the shop together the vibe is awesome.

I *felt* him driving this thing. I felt every yell and probably every beat of his heart. I want one.

Great video guys. I recommend getting a smooth bore nozzle for your 2 1/2. That will give you a lot more penetration. The combination nozzle you have is great but it breaks the stream up a bunch even on straight stream. The smooth bore will do some serious damage. I have blown holes in the side of houses with one. Also when holding the nozzle, hold it further out in front of you and use big core muscles to hold the hose vs your hands, arm etc. This will give you a bunch more control. Can't wait to see the next video.

Randomly saw stuff about the monster bike, then the first Humvee video showed up on my feed and I was hooked on watched these guys make these goofy things. Keep up the Great work!

This is one of those builds I actually feel like I could do myself with almost zero experience, minus welding the motor brackets - and even that I feel like I could learn with the right access to tools. I was almost going to say this should be labeled as a How To video xD

“Building is building , it’s all fun “😂😂😂 why is that so true

Also.. The fact that you guys cad with the track pad is pretty crazy LOL

Liking Edwin take control on a video doing the "entire" build!

So glad you are joining the fab world in depth. You have a great teacher

That looks so fast, that saying 0 to 60, does it no justice 😂😂😂

guards on the bottom of the chain and brake rotor. Taller tires. Really cool. Love the go cam footage. Thanks for another great vid. You guys rock!

Really enjoyed this one I would watch a whole series with Ethan teaching how to fabricate

You guys could 3d print some sick looking farrings or some fenders, a number plate on the front, some bash guards for your hands, a cover for the Motor, a chain guard, but yea some body panels with some aggressive angles and lines and actually a vent to draw air to the controller would be really helpful.

If that driveway/path/road was asphalt it would be a killer track for a small quad like that. Great build.

Great job Edwin . Practice makes perfect . It s lot to learn all at once . Take your time .

This makes me smile. That's so typical of a group of talented friend.

19:17 There is a possed off kitten inside that box: Change My Mind

Something I’ve learned about lenses and carbon build up is if you cover it in a very very thin layer of petroleum jelly or anything clear and equivalent and wipe off the excess you can on the lens and you won’t get almost any carbon build up and if you do you just wipe off the petroleum jelly with a micro fiber cloth and ur all good, remember less is more with camera lens

I really appreciate how much effort you guys put to getting good funky beats on this channel. Lots of channels will just say fk it and use the same music all the time.

I like the mix between electric and gas on this channel

Seeing Stephen on the quad, I'd really like if, for a bit of step in a different direction, you'd do the chopper build with him, as you talked about on the podcast once. Something that fits a Steppenwolf soundtrack and Stephen's mustache, but maybe with a nice KTM engine? 😊

This is really making me excited for a new racing series that's affordable for these things and other future projects. Energy put to ground is getting so much more attainable!

This is epic guys! We couldn’t have imagined just how perfect our TruMoto would be for this thing. It looks so dang fun! We wantttt ittttt!

Love that youre so close to me ans I got your videos almost 7 years ago. I subscribed when there was only 50 total subscribers

I feel like the future for GHP is only gonna get better, the new shop has really done everything anyone'd expect it to for the work; Edwin is learning to weld!? Among all the recent changes; nothing but gains guys.

Awesome job, next up tesla cyber truck power wheels. And yes it should be electric. That would be such a great build

Nothing beats Edwin's original grind hard tunes! Love to hear when they come back

I really appreciate that y'all do gas and electric builds 💚

Homie killed it with the cinematography in this episode 👌🏽

I’m sure Ethan and Edwin have learned so much from each other completely different skills coming together to teach each other.

I'm not a a big electric guy, but that is proper SICK!!!!

I have been following you guys every since the beginning of the pandemic and still til this day I love the toys yal build and make I will try to find a way to send you pics of my creations

I noticed you guys still have the old Jeep P/U. I think that it would make an excellent EV. and keep it four wheel drive. those old Jeep P/Us are pretty sought after. and that one would be really sought after as an EV. it's great to see Edwin really enjoying his creation. it's a great build with very little R&D issues. until the wires got chewed up by the chain. great job Edwin.

Oh man , your videos always put a smile on my face , greetings from Greece .

With great power comes great donuts.

For mounting hook springs I like to use shoe strings, or something similar, baler twine, rope of any sort really. Gives you way more leverage. Cool builds guys, been watching since the beginning.

It is so awesome seeing Edwin working on things and making his own things!!!

❤❤ Boys, this throwback style vid, with the original GHC comradery is refreshing asf!

I TIG weld for a living. Sharp is sharp. Only the internet cares how you made it sharp.

Love the clock in the background especially during Timelapse

Can't wait for the next offroad powerwheels with one of those in it!