RC Drift Gearing Test 

In your instruction manual you will find the recomended pinion/spur combination to get the ideal final drive ratio (FDR) for the perticular surface you will be running your drift chassis. For a fairly slippery surface like you are running your chassis on here a high FDR would be the best option (10 to 13). If the bevel gears in the gearbox is the stock ones they should be 40T/13T wich means you will have to calculate your FDR by your spur tooth count divided by pinion tooth count and then multiplied with the number 3.08. Lets say you are running a 80T spur gear and a 20T pinion, youre FDR will then be close to 12 wich should be decent for good control of the chassis on your surface if you are running a 13.5 or 10.5 turn motor. And there is also other factors that come into play. What kind of tires the chassis is running is one of them. If you check out DS Racing tire selection chart they give some pointers as to what tire might suit your surface of choice. Then there is personal taste/feel, damper settings, acerman and so on to dive deeper into. I am sure you will love getting into rc drifting. You have chosen the right chassis to keep the fustration low and the steep learning curve will bring you much joy! :D

Even in RC drift, less wheel spin = faster acceleration! Because physics doesn’t change on scale. Great video, thanks for the research.

Awesome bench and drifting test brother. That was pretty cool to watch.

Awesome video! Loving the tech side of it

Sweet looking drift car Awesome test🙂 Thanks for sharing

Nice testing, the motor mount mod was excellent!

Nice video and great info

Good stuff man. Great test 👍👍

Good testing 👍

interesting test. good explanation

interesting gearing experiment mate *👍liked👍full view👀😊Au😊supporting🔥*

Cool man some good info here

Nice test! I like the little drift course set-up! Great for a cold day! Any heat issues with this pinion options?

Good video!

Hi Troy great information man I still have a question I’m planning to swap from 25t pinion, 83 spur gear standard Sakura d5 to 16 pinion and 86 spur gear. My question is what’s the effect with bigger or smaller spur gear? Thanks 🙏

Interesting video. I'm experimenting in this direction too. But please clean your camera lense the next time :)

I would think as much wheel speed as possible till it affects low speed. Then it's just throttle control. But I've never had a drift car

bro what is the timing on motor ?