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01-29-2011, 10:45 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: winnipeg
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|  Home made micro tires
hey guys..decided to make my own tires for the micro crawler because i wasent happy with what was out there for my rig...  cost me $47cad at my LHS and 3 nights after work...the results are insane compared to stock or the rc4wd tires  |
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01-29-2011, 10:46 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: winnipeg
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01-29-2011, 10:47 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: winnipeg
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i also made wheel wideners for it by cuting the hubs from the stock wheels and gluing them to the rear of the new ones
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01-29-2011, 11:17 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Marengo, Ohio
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NO !! i was just about to order stuff to do this lol. They look great, how tall did yours come out ? |
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01-29-2011, 01:25 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Milwaukee
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01-29-2011, 02:38 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Plainfield, IL.
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What tires are they? Did you just slip them over the stock tires and glue them, or just use the sidewalls from the original tires?
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01-29-2011, 03:04 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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I knew it was just a matter of time and we'd start seeing the micro cut and shuts. I've been thinking about a Losi Eclipse red compound on Losi or RC4WD sidewall. Nice work.  |
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01-29-2011, 03:09 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: centereach
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that look crazy. I like that. do you have any steering problems after doing that? what tires are those and how is it done.
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01-29-2011, 04:01 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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I have a set of over sized tires and without wideners your steering will be reduced.
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01-29-2011, 07:53 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oakley
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| Those tires look badass. Good work on those. Have you thought about cutting the length of the pins down at all? Wonder how they would do about half of that length. |
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01-30-2011, 01:01 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: winnipeg
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The overall height of the tires is 60mm and yes i widened all 4 corners and i will be adding one more set of wideners to the front of it....the tires are losi mini step pins that i narrowed and used the stock sidewalls cut and fit to the larger beads of the mini step pins... i also added 2x wraps of 7gram lead pieces cut in half...(3.5grm peices) the results are insane climbing compared to any tire ive tried yet....i make wideners from cutting hubs from other rims and glue them in the back of another rim and drill trough the face to get the nut on..
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01-30-2011, 01:03 PM
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01-30-2011, 01:12 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: winnipeg
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well after some testing at our local track im in need of some gearing down....i was expecting it though...lol..so i got some micro t gears that im gonna try out.....probally have to cut a new engine plate for it to get the gearing i need
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02-06-2011, 01:23 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: winnipeg
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so i added a 56t spur gear and a 10t pinion and thats the ticket to these tires . now i got to cut them down a little so they grab a bit better
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02-07-2011, 01:01 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: By a lake in Thornton
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Damn good work sir.
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02-07-2011, 06:09 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: In the mancave...
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damn, these look good. i give this ,, nice work...
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