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12-30-2008, 06:25 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cleveland, OH
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|  Easy 1.5's  First, hack the small sidewalls off a set of TLT tires. Use the raised lip as a guide. Then use that sidewall as a guide to cutting the sidewall off the tire of your choice. Mud Slingers in this case.  Then cut the outer bead groove off a TLT rim, and glue it to the wheel. HPI Stock Car rims here.  Glue everything together and test fit...  And paint.  Perfect for a 1/12 scale build like this OG Blackfoot  |
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12-30-2008, 06:34 AM
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| ~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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KILLER theres been lots of talk from CAC and RC4wd of a line of 1.5 wheels and tires possibly coming out.
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12-30-2008, 07:02 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Monroe, NC
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Great Job. Pablo also has done a few sets of 1.5" wheels and reduced 1.9 trail doctors. Look great. Justin |
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12-30-2008, 08:49 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orlando
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Stu, thanks for the tech. Never thought about doing them like this.Good job. | |
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12-30-2008, 07:16 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NE Ohio
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now you are just getting fancy!
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12-30-2008, 10:17 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Behind the torch!
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Always up to something, huh Stu? I can see tlt wheels/tires going up on ebay  |
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12-30-2008, 10:25 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: santa monica
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very clever work stu. I love seeing stuff like this. Quote:
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One thing that I noticed on Scale4x4rc regarding this is that the way Stu has done it, the overall tire height/diameter remains unchanged. So the mudslinger shown there is the same size overall as any other 1.9 mudslinger. He just made the hole smaller. Thats a great way to do a 1.5 wheel and I particularly like how simple it is and the resultant look of the wheel. However, when I use 1.5 wheels its usually to get a more scale looking wheel AND tire so I always reduce the tire too. Since a more scale relationship between the tire and the wheel well is primarily what I'm after. Nice work regardless Stu! | ||
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12-31-2008, 05:59 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cleveland, OH
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Since the backside of the stock car wheel is still 1.9, you'd have to do a little more cutting to reduce the OD of the tire this way. Basically do the reduction and then cut out the sidewall to 1.9. Besides, I wanted a big tire on this rig; small Slingers just wouldn't look right. These work out to 38's on a 15-inch rim Also, with a 1.9 backside, the wheels will fit XC or TA0x chassis. If you make a 1.5 backside, you can still fit 'em to TLT/Hi-Lift axles. Now for a really huge tire, hack both sides off the TLT tire and graft 'em into a 2.2  Last edited by microgoat; 12-31-2008 at 06:06 AM. |
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12-31-2008, 06:34 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: St. Louis (High Ridge)
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it helps thet the slingers are smaller tires anyway, I'm looking for some stompers or crushers to reduce to the 1.7 so i my tire height will fit a xc01, without my pumpkin draging the ground on my super narrow wheelyking axles.
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12-31-2008, 09:58 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: akron
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big 1.9's I like them  |
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12-31-2008, 11:46 PM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Rocklin, CA
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Using the tlt sidewalls on 2.2 tires is real easy too. Just cut inside the rib on the sidewall and they fit right into the 2.2 bead. The tlt wheels work good to and look like Weld super singles. Never thought of doing it your way though.    |
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01-01-2009, 01:04 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Grande Prairie AB
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that just gave me an idea for a build  |
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