[KenWittlief]

ok, when you said the turrent was scrapped out, I thought you meant literallly

if the parts are all there then I would give it your best shot. Have a time schedule for the tasks that need to be performed and accept that if you fall behind schedule at some point, or hit a show-stopper, you might need to revert back to the way it was.

This is one of those engineering trade-off situations. By changing your robot you are taking a risk that something might go wrong, you might not be done in time (miss your practice matches or not able to play in some of the seeding rounds), or there might be some un-expected adverse side effect created (that makes the bot worse in the end).

and at the same time if you are successful then you will have a better robot on the field. The deciding factor is whether the gain (reward) is worth the risk.