Originally Posted by billdelong

Many years ago, I had experimented with drifting gyros (without heading hold) for both 2WD SCB and 4WD SCT classes that I was running at the time on loose pack dirt that was watered and would dry quickly in the summer... traction was very inconsistent. I found that when I started using the gyro that it gave me phenomenally better traction control... my 2WD SCB lap times were closing in on most of the 4WD SCT trucks at the time... it was definitely cheating and worked extremely well. KO Propo was one of the only high end radios at the time who offered integrated gyros in their Rx's, so you could easily adjust the gain from the 3rd/4th channel buttons. What I found to work best was about 10-15% gain on the steering and 0-5% gain on the throttle, if I went with too high of a gain that it would tend to cause more harm than good, and the amount of gain needed was dependent on how loose the track conditions were... in medium to high traction conditions, there was no benefit to using any gyro gain.