Originally Posted by
sosidge
Essentials in my opinion are non-bladed front spool outputs ...
In stock-class I actually prefer the spool outdrives with blades. Following the advice of someone here in the forum I cooked the blades before using them. Can't really tell if that makes a difference, but I replace them only every 4 to 5 races because of wear and they only break once in a while after a hard crash. But the metal parts (outdrives and drive shafts) stay intact.
With the non-bladed outdrives I had to replace the (then quite worn in) outdrives after a few races and also sometimes the drive shafts because even the pins on the shafts went flat. Maybe there's a trick that I don't know about to make the outdrives last longer, but I found that rather expensive. And I've had them all, Tamiya, Roche, 3Racing, Arena, etc...
Christian