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01-16-2022, 05:19 PM | #1 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: North to Alaska - go north, the rush is on....
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| Might be a silly question, but... Anyone put 1.55 tires on a Gen8?
Now that I am building a dedicated 2.2 rig, I really want to turn my Gen8 AXE into a 1.55 tired rig. I have no real idea why, because I have always been a " bigger is better" kinda guy when it comes R/C's. Big and slow, just like my 1:1 F350 One of my concerns is that with the portal axles, I may not be able to get it low enough to make it look right. I was curious if anyone has run 1.55's on their Gen8 and if so, do you have any pictures of it? I know it would look goofy with the stock body, but I am running a pick-up body on mine. Thanks in advance. Or, you can just tell me I am just plain'ole nutty, I'm good either way... Last edited by AK KRAWLER; 01-16-2022 at 05:23 PM. Reason: Grammafication |
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01-16-2022, 06:03 PM | #2 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Mudville
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| Re: Might be a silly question, but... Anyone put 1.55 tires on a Gen8?
Seen a few pics on the Fascistbook. Doesn't look bad. Like old 15 inch wheels/rims.
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01-16-2022, 06:11 PM | #3 | |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: North to Alaska - go north, the rush is on....
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| Re: Might be a silly question, but... Anyone put 1.55 tires on a Gen8? Quote:
I would consider the 1.7's too, but the tire choice is pretty limited. I think a 1.55 rim/tire combo that is close to 4" tall would look decent. When I get home tomorrow, I will start looking to see if I would be able to get it low enough to look right. If nothing else, I will post pics of mine I have a set of 1.9 RC4WD Trail Busters that I got off of a member here that I can mock up. In the end, the 1.9 wheel looks too big in the middle of the 4" tire. | |
01-16-2022, 09:09 PM | #4 | |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2021 Location: Germantown
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| Re: Might be a silly question, but... Anyone put 1.55 tires on a Gen8? Quote:
it has never been on the rocks at all. The guy had lowered it to make it look stock by putting proline 75mm shocks on it. I didn't like it because it's so low, and you lose so much flex by shortening the shocks that much, but it did look like a stock height Scout would look. I am selling the shocks that came off of it if you're interested. here's a link: https://www.amainhobbies.com/proline...yABEgIzQfD_BwE Here's what it looked like with the shorter shocks. | |
01-16-2022, 09:20 PM | #5 | |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: North to Alaska - go north, the rush is on....
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| Re: Might be a silly question, but... Anyone put 1.55 tires on a Gen8? Quote:
*EDIT* Kinda funny, my dad was from the opposite corner of the state as you. Northeast, up in Kingsport. Last edited by AK KRAWLER; 01-16-2022 at 10:31 PM. | |
01-17-2022, 06:38 AM | #6 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: california under the rock im crawling on
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| Re: Might be a silly question, but... Anyone put 1.55 tires on a Gen8?
a 1.55 wheel scales out to a 12.4 inch rim if your using the gen8 body for what ever thats worth lol i have seen 4.19 wheels on the scout the guy comped it in class 1 if i remeber right he did pretty well so a 4" tire on that platform should be fine you might want those shorter shocks or just run full droop or go with a pen spring mod |
01-17-2022, 09:30 AM | #7 | ||
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I am going to grab those shocks and will try full droop first, them possibly the pen spring mod if I don't like full droop. | ||
01-17-2022, 09:43 AM | #8 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: california under the rock im crawling on
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| Re: Might be a silly question, but... Anyone put 1.55 tires on a Gen8?
well when anyone talks about the gen8 i think of the scout body because there is no posable.way that anything else would ever fit lol the wheel base on the gen8 scout is dead on for 1/8th scale the width on the other hand uh is more 7th scale i wish they got them right but it still looks good from the side lol |
01-17-2022, 10:00 AM | #9 | |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: North to Alaska - go north, the rush is on....
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| Re: Might be a silly question, but... Anyone put 1.55 tires on a Gen8? Quote:
I did not really think about the scale part of it much. Next to my youngest daughter’s Gen7 Pro I’ll definitely have to do some lowering and tucking, should be interesting. Last edited by AK KRAWLER; 01-17-2022 at 10:19 AM. Reason: Added pictures | |
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