Originally Posted by Buckaroo

Depends on your surface, but the setup that Hanulec posted is awesome for 17.5 RCGT on soda prepped asphalt. I found that to make it work overall, the HPI pro compound X tires worked best.

As to chassis, what are you starting with? I'm assuming the 6 cell chassis? I ran the Lipo chassis first, then the Exotek chassis. Neither was at a disadvantage to anything else out there.