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10-16-2006, 08:00 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 234
|  Why narrow wheels and tires? I can't figure out why one would want to narrow the wheels and tires on an RC crawler? ican understand if you are competing, but why for the average Joe Schmoe? dIMa |
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10-16-2006, 09:04 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Clarkston, MI
Posts: 675
| ...why not? It's not that hard, and it improves performance by a long shot. |
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10-16-2006, 09:08 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tucson
Posts: 31
| The point of nawrrowing a tire is to make the contact patch smaller thus making the wieght of the vechile more concentraded on the smalled contact patch thus making more traction. |
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10-16-2006, 10:30 PM
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| I lost my vendor privileges Join Date: May 2006 Location: TOP OF THE HILL
Posts: 3,022
| more grip and sidewall to grab with. |
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10-16-2006, 10:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: With my family
Posts: 2,751
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because we all strive to make our rigs crawl as good as they possably can! | |
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10-17-2006, 12:03 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2005 Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Posts: 2,039
| sometimes you gotta narrow the wheel for clearance on the suspension links. No steering = no fun... |
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10-17-2006, 12:29 AM
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| OCCUPY RCC!   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: I am the 53%.
Posts: 11,305
| Narrowing also brings the sidewall lugs into play. |
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