I run 1/12th all winter exclusively. Out here, we run 99% 19T motors. It's a perfect blend of speed, maintenance and ease of setup. Love them—especially the Reedy flame 19T. You have to gear the snot out of them, though. I was running crazy rollout with mine.
Unless you are running mod motors, you don't
need a receiver battery pack. I run Spektrum on my 19Ts and never had any issues, and that's running 10 minute practices.
Bodies here in the US are a bit different than the UK. I think Europe is partial to open cockpit bodies for some reason. Here, 90% of the bodies are Protoform Speed12s. CEFX, Parma, Protoform are all great shells. Tires for stock/19T are purple front/grey rears, and mod usually starts with pink/double pink. I prefer Jacos myself, but there are a lot of suppliers of tires that will get you close.
In 12th scale, 64p gears are wonderful for fine tuning your gear ratios. I run 64p in all of my carpet cars.
To carry:
- .075" T-bars (don't bother with thinner ones on carpet)
- Buy a selection of front Associated springs (at least 2 pairs of .018", .020", .022")
- Buy a selection of rear springs for the VCS shock
Nice things to have on the car:
- machined shock nut (CRC, Silva, etc)
- .125" ceramic diff balls
- IRS rear ride height adjustment kit
Other than that, they are wonderfully simple to own, maintain and race. You'll be hooked.
doug