Exceed Mad Torque.. Blue collar mods

[The Crawl Space]

Shameless promotion much?

[Big E]

Originally Posted by igrind808

Shameless promotion much?

I agree..

[mentolio]

Ditto...

[Big E]

Well.. Shameless promos.. yeahhh.. Well I got some tires in the mail the other day.. Thank you.. Nothing better then good guys willing to help out.. So next on tap is cutin and shutin the stock tires... also ordered some 4" wheels for $30, should be here soon.. and deciding if I'm going to go build myself a whole new custom chassis .. So here in a couple days I'll be putting up some photos..

[Big E]

So heres some pics...


Thanks for the tires.. they must be french they are fragile


8 tires... looks serious, guess theres only one way to find out if I can do this or not


No turning back now

[Big E]

So looking at the stock tires I know I wanted the skinnier.. so I debated cutting them down the center of the tread and narrow them that way, but I wanted height. The stock tires are real square where the sidewall meets the tread. and I wanted it to be more rounded when I increaded the size so i figured I needed to cut some of the tread so the tires would curve better when increasing the size

Heres a pic, the stock tread is on the right the new cut tread is on the left



Here it is on the finished tire

So time to start glueing.. First time doing this. was going great until I had a drip streak across the side wall, looks lame... but hey ya do what you can.. I'm still picking glue off my fingers..




Here they are well as of now just one, Just under 4" inside (hoping they will strech onto my rims, they wont be here till the end of the week going to wait to do the other 3 till i know fit they'll fit) and outside Just under 8".. Going to have to increase the wheel base, puting these big donuts on

[JugRKnoT]

Man those look great! I'd like to get some stock tires and just make em taller n skinnier on the stock rims sooo if u here of some lemme know!! Oh and ive got 2 35t motors comin for mine and I'll let u guys know how that works out;)

[Big E]

Originally Posted by JugRKnoT

Man those look great! I'd like to get some stock tires and just make em taller n skinnier on the stock rims sooo if u here of some lemme know!! Oh and ive got 2 35t motors comin for mine and I'll let u guys know how that works out;)

Well the easiest thing to do would probably be narrowing your wheelsand trying some new taller skinnier foam in the tires.. Probablly try cutting the tread like I did to make them curve better.. worth a try


I got home from work and couldn't wait till my wheels showed up so I glued the other 3 tires up

[Big E]

Well the rims showed up... they fit great, only thing I need to do is narrow the rims.. but here are some teaser pics

[Abavuso]

Originally Posted by Big E

Well the rims showed up... they fit great, only thing I need to do is narrow the rims.. but here are some teaser pics

Holly Cow!!!!! how tall did those end up being? Never mind, just found it in you post... I love it though. i'de like to see how they do compared to some super donas

[Big E]

Originally Posted by Abavuso

Holly Cow!!!!! how tall did those end up being? Never mind, just found it in you post... I love it though. i'de like to see how they do compared to some super donas

What its "mostly stock"

[XtrmTJ]

That thang is just plain Sexxy !

[gohstwrighter]

if thoes tires come apart take the tire off lightley sand the inside and use a pice of bicikle tube to over lap your seem and bond that to your tire with rubber cement or use some mesh neting and glue it to the tire evan bridal vale will work.

[gohstwrighter]

hay wer you kipping your old rims ?hint hint
if not let me know what you want for them i might by thim from you for my slash 4x4.

[The Crawl Space]

Damn dude, rig looks insane with those new tires and wheels
Good job on the cut n shuts, I still haven't gotten to work on my set.

[JugRKnoT]

Looks sick man! i spent a couple hours last night making links and stretchin mine out to just over 18" hex to hex its got a nice stance to it wheels n tires will definetly be next thanks for the ideas!!!

[monkeyracer]

Originally Posted by Big E

What its "mostly stock"
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Good job on the cut and shuts!

Originally Posted by gohstwrighter

if thoes tires come apart take the tire off lightley sand the inside and use a pice of bicikle tube to over lap your seem and bond that to your tire with rubber cement or use some mesh neting and glue it to the tire evan bridal vale will work.

There's no need to add any extra rubber like that. All it will do is add stiffness, and is unnecessary. Just go over the seams with IC2000 rubberized CA and you will be fine.

[Big E]

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[Big E]

So heres the narrowed rims.. I forgot to take a pic before I cut em up.. but the width of the wheel was 2 1/4".. I took 3/4" out leaving me with a 1 1/2" wide wheel..





Here are the 3 pieces..



I figured out that if I cut the center piece I could use it as support for the joint



Here you can see my lay out line.. before I cut the wheel I made a line so I could line up the wheel halves.. important if you cut them like I did with a 1/2" hand drill stuck in a vice.. but hey it works

[Big E]

So I got the foam cut and the tires mounted. Not too crazy about the foam.. might need to go check local fabric stores for some foam.. so I thought I'd try it out.. I have this one obstacle I've yet to crawl up.. the d*mn couch.. until now.. click on the pic to see video.. You can see how crappy the one servo is, and with these wheels junk.. need to finish my dual servos


And look it does tricks now... Air crawling