VehiclesTamiya WT-01N

Tamiya WT-01N Chassis

Name: Tamiya WT-01N
Brand: Tamiya

1/10 scale · 2WD chassis · sold as kits

Tamiya's WT-01N is a 1/10 rear-drive pickup truck chassis with a sealed gearbox and friction dampers, sold as the Volkswagen Amarok Lift-Up Custom kit.

Tamiya prints 18.3:1 on the kit's 18T pinion and 16.5:1 on an optional 20T, and does not publish the spur or the gear train behind them, so the pinion and those totals are the only gearing figures. The wheelbase is 281 mm. The pinion, motor and tires come with each kit rather than with the chassis, so enter yours in the gearing tool.

Final drive: 16.50 to 18.30:1on 20T to 18T
Wheelbase: 281mm
Introduced: 2015

Gearing Top speedsourced

The pinion, motor and tires come with each kit: enter yours in the gearing tool.

Tamiya WT-01N — Photo: Tamiya (opens in a new tab)

Kits on this chassis Built on the WT-01N

Each kit adds its own body, tires, pinion and motor. The chassis figures below apply to all of them.

Kit	Part no.	Maker page
Volkswagen Amarok Lift-Up Custom	58603	tamiya.comPage (opens in a new tab)

Specifications

Last modified Sep 29, 2026

Spec	Value	Basis
Vehicle
Class The kind of vehicle the maker sells it as. It sets what the car is built to do and which cars it is fair to compare it with. Monster trucks have tall tires and long suspension travel, built for jumping and rough ground rather than a race track. The maker does not name a class for this one, so this is the site's judgment from its design. Drive Only one axle is driven, the rear on almost every 2WD RC car. It is lighter and simpler, and it takes more throttle control on loose ground. Build A kit you build yourself from parts. Most kits come without motor, ESC, servo, radio and battery, and many without tires or a painted body. The manual lists what to add. Scale The maker's nominal size compared with a full-size vehicle. It works more as a class label than a measurement. A 1/10 monster truck is far bigger than a 1/10 touring car, so compare length and weight for real size.
Class	Monster truckour call
Drive	2WD
Build	Kit
Scale	1/10
Drivetrain
Pinion The small gear on the motor shaft. Fewer teeth gear the car shorter: quicker acceleration, lower top speed and a cooler motor. More teeth do the opposite. On a chassis sold as kits, each kit brings its own. Spur The large gear the pinion drives. A bigger spur with the same pinion gears the car shorter. Pinion and spur must have the same pitch, or tooth size, to mesh. Transmission & axle Every reduction after the spur, multiplied together: transmission, differentials and axle gears. It is fixed by the design; the gearing you change is the pinion and spur. Final drive, printed How many times the motor turns for one turn of the wheels. A higher number is shorter gearing: more acceleration and pulling power, less top speed.
Pinion	With each kit
Spur	Not published
Transmission & axle	Not published
Final drive, printed	18.30:1 on 18T, 16.50:1 on 20TMaker's chart	Maker's chart
Wheels & tires
Tire diameter The outside diameter of the mounted tire, tread to tread. A taller tire covers more ground each turn, which gears the car taller. At high speed tires can balloon and grow, so the real gearing gets taller as the car goes faster.
Tire diameter	With each kit
Power
Motor Motor KV is the RPM a motor turns per volt with no load. This vehicle comes without a motor, so there is no stock KV; it depends on the one you fit. Battery The highest LiPo cell count the maker rates the electronics for. This vehicle comes without electronics, so it depends on the ESC and motor you fit.
Motor	With each kit
Battery	With each kit
Size & weight
Wheelbase The distance between the front and rear axle centers. A longer wheelbase is steadier at speed and over bumps; a shorter one turns more tightly.
Wheelbase	281 mm11.1 inStock	Stock

How to read these figures

Stock is as the vehicle ships.
Calculated is worked from the stock figures on this page rather than stored beside them, so the two cannot drift apart.
Not published means it exists but no source we could find prints it.
With each kit means each kit on this chassis brings its own, so enter yours in the gearing tool.
Maker’s chart is the ratios the maker prints for this chassis with the pinions it names.

How these numbers were settled

The WT-01N is the version of Tamiya's rear-drive WT-01 pickup chassis under the Volkswagen Amarok Lift-Up Custom, with a narrower 192mm tread and 123mm tires.

Tamiya publishes neither the spur tooth count nor the ratio of the gear train after it: the Amarok manual shows the 18T pinion (MG7, step 4, p. 19) and prints an options box '18T 18.3:1' and '20T 16.5:1' for the SP.356 pinion set (p. 18); the kit page prints 'ギヤ比=1:18.3' and a 281mm wheelbase.
Pinion and total are the only gearing facts.
The Amarok is a spot re-run in Tamiya's status file, first sold in 2015.
The pinion, motor and tires come with each kit, so they are not part of the chassis figures: enter yours in the gearing tool.

Sources

Every figure on this page traces to one of these; where they disagreed, the note above says which was used and why. Links open in a new tab.

Maker documents

Volkswagen Amarok Lift-Up Custom (WT-01N) instruction manual (Tamiya PDF) (opens in a new tab)Options 18T 18.3:1, 20T 16.5:1 p. 18; 18T pinion MG7 p. 19d7z22c0gz59ng.cloudfront.netUsed forMain specs

Parts and electronics

Product info EX (opens in a new tab)tamiya.comUsed forMain specs
Products 58603 (opens in a new tab)tamiya.comUsed forMain specsSize
Std.csv (opens in a new tab)tamiya.comUsed forMain specs

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