If your gonNa get brushless get the Novak slydr system good price and set up for drifting. Has all kinds of awesome features for drifting. And you'll have to run lipo with brushless which requires a new charger but well worth the money. Run times are much longer and you get full power to the end of the battery with lipo instead of it getting weaker in power as it dies which is more consistent For drifting. For tires I've ran both and it doesn't really matter abs tires seem a little more slick and slide better on any surface plus you can pick lots of em up for cheap. HPI tires are a little pricey and i only use them for competitions cause that's a rule for the comps I run in. Nice pics love the body