Overall with drag racing, or "pushing things", it's difficult to say what will live forever due to the nature of what racers end up doing testing and tuning. Most setups will last a long time, when used safely and correctly, but once "Drag Racing" starts to happen, some of that goes out the window and failures happen.
To us, the combination of settings on the ESC, the motor's endbell timing, and the gearing are the bigger determining factor to a Motor and ESC lasting a long time. To be safer, higher turn motors are going to take abuse a bit better and be easier on things. So, some folks have better luck with 5.5 and higher. But for some, they want faster motors, and run 4.5 and lower turn motors.
Using a low endbell timing. Safe ESC settings, and a small pinion gear, will make things last longer and be able to be "Tuned" up as needed. Our own limited NPRC testing, and our extensive talking with racers, has found that any "Fast" setup, can be "Set to kill" and blow up in a few runs.
Start in the low Teens for pinion Gears.
Turn the motor endbell timing down.
Don't use Boost and Turbo at the same time until you're comfortable with how it all works.
Timing "Adds up", so "Endbell", timing, Turbo Timing, and Boost, all add together. That can be "Too much" very easily.
Turbo, is safer to use than Boost.
Turn the ESC's Brakes as low as possible to keep them alive longer. Brake "spikes" do a lot of damage.
It is best to run a "Receiver Capacitor". This is not the same as the Caps on the ESC, they "Plug Into" the receiver and help keep everything alive.
You may pick up some tips from our videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck4qYtF07Xc&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRYxsiMxcZE&t=
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