Chassis Reviews

This may seem pretty new as a section. I'm not sure has it really been done somewhere. So far, i have driven quite a few properly setup overdriven chassis from my fellow friends. Do take note, that these posts i might be posting is purely what I FELT, not biased towards any chassis racism or such. I will not be posting any setup sheets for theirs at all.

Lets start off with my school mates.
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Name: Saniy

Locations: Usually LAS, Jurong, previously Seng Kang Drift meets, e.t.c. He attends so many drift meets that i am unable to track down them all lol.

Chassis: Team Magic E4D
Overdriven ratio: 1.7

Rating: 8/10

Review: Rear motor, but Centre placed. This encourages chassis balance such like the HB TCD, TA05 VDF, Square TA05, Yokomo DRB. For me, this car feels too underpowered to me at all. Using a Novak 13.5 with a 7-8 gear ratio, i expected it to feel much more torquey. It is most likely the transmitter settings, which he could have limited to less than 70% of the maximum power of the motor itself. It is very user friendly, which is what i found very useful for new players in the Overdrive drifting world. The steering mod done by him is also ingenious, with the use of a helicopter based servo horn, he corrected ackerman, and gave it more steering angle. His car is able to take high angle corners very well and is one of the attributes i like about it. Even though i am not able to drive this car in a few hours, the feel of it resembles a ER34 with a RB25DE(non-turbo skyline engine which appeared in the G35 Infiniti) in it. Having just enough power to cause it to drift, heavy chassis+throttle sensitive engine. Spinning out can only be caused by not watching throttle response, which is quite bulletproof. Usually this is the kind of setup beginners should look out for as it encourages more learning, just like learning from a Mazda MX-5 Miata rather than a AE86 to drift.

Name: Samuel Tan

Locations: Jurong Drift Meet, LAS, Seng Kang, Many more....

Chassis: Xray T2`009
Overdrive ratio: 1.9

Rating: 10/10

Review: Probably the best feel i had with a chassis i have ever encountered. Really shows how experience can get anything far in life. It carries a conventional belt-driven setup just like a TRF416, which can be hard to handle due to the missing centre weight of a driveshaft. Amazingly, this car felt Waaayyy better than mine. It was drift friendly, really ready to just throw itself with just a little touch of the trigger. The way it was setup was like Takahiro Ueno's Toyota Soarer, which would do the same on any Touge, any track. because it was swing friendly, we might expect it to spin easily on any mistakes made. turns out, it could compensate for mistakes. Enough power, high level of tuning, this car pretty much portrays the peak of CS tuning.

Alright thats pretty much for now. All i am waiting for is my long awaited 8Degree C-hub from Square, Speedmind Tx Bag for Ko Propo EX-10, ABC Hobby R30 Skyline or any random yokomo shell.


Some of you guys might wonder why i have reset the chatbox. There is too much spam and insults apparently, and if it happens again. I will remove it premanently.

Care Package!

Futaba S9551 Servo. Bought this as a servo upgrade. came at a huge discount over the 9451 which i wanted. Slower, but i like it better it being slow. fast servos will not go along with my playing style.
Quite small from what i can see.

YAY! My Brand new KO PROPO EX-10 Eurus. Fits so nicely.
Now whats in the back? Its a setting module to set the servos. Wow. Thats a first time i'm hearing it.
Quite a nice box. With my favourite colour combination. Black and orange.
Module and the manual.
Woot. Brand new fresh and the beautiful EX-10 unveiled.
R902-FS Module. Newest gen module from KO Propo. 200% faster than its Helios brother.
Lastly, The receiver. Wow. Look at it. Its puny. 1/4 the size of my current receiver.

Alright thats all for now. I'll go sort out my rims offsets before i do another update.