rubber tires for my pan car

[sledgehammerman]

where can i find rubber tires (touring car tires) to fit my team ass. rc10lss. i drive on unprepared parking lots and besides my car not handling as well is i want it to i go thru a lot of foamies. proline used to offer a set but since the decline in pancar onroad racing they dont offer them anymore.

[tallyrc]

nobody makes them anymore, nor the rims.. not sure where exacly you run, but can you blow the area off with a leaf blower? generally foam tires have way more traction than rubber tires, and mine last very long... once you control wheel spin they last pretty long...

[got2bqik]

Try John's BSR tires. Look at the capped tires for 1/10ths. Really pricey though
Tim

[InspGadgt]

Rubber tires are going to give you less grip then your foams do. Caps are for concrete oval. Some people have had some luck getting them to work on asphault but every one I've seen tried ended up with shredded caps.

[NotWalkinBlind]

where can i find rubber tires (touring car tires) to fit my team ass. rc10lss. i drive on unprepared parking lots and besides my car not handling as well is i want it to i go thru a lot of foamies. proline used to offer a set but since the decline in pancar onroad racing they dont offer them anymore.

Go here and ask:

http://www.rctech.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

[BLPpoweredTRX]

I had a 10Lss back somewhere around 1994 and I too used it for running unprepped parking lots. It was cRaZy fast but I could never get it to hook up with the kit foam tires. At that time Proline made pancar conversion wheels and tires but I think they are OOP.

Foam tires are a mystery to me to this day. They don't last very long unless you have one of those tire truing lathes do they?

[NotWalkinBlind]

There's really no such thing as making a pan car hook up "running unprepped parking lots." I'm assuming that both of you are talking about just bashing.

The reason is that there is so much sand and fine dust on a parking lot. When you are in a club that holds organized races on a parking lot, they at least get 95-99% of the sand and dust off with a leaf blower. At that point, if the surface is fairly smooth... by that, I mean not an older parking lot where the asphalt has worn down a bit and the crushed rock is sticking up as much as 1/16 of an inch... you can hook up quite well with softer foam tires after you massage some traction compound into them.

In organized racing, after a few heats, you actually get sections in corners where the traction is better because of 1) everyone's tires picking up the finer dust that the blower didn't get and 2) some of that traction compound and rubber gets applied to the surface and makes it sticky.

Some clubs will spray sugar water on the surface to make it sticky.

If you are bash racing with a couple of friends by laying down a few cones, boards, or some garden hose to form a track, and you can blow the track clean, you will have much more fun.

Sounds crazy, but if you don't have any traction compound, if you have some suntan lotion with sunblock in it, that will make foams hook up really well. Just put the car on a block with the rear facing you, then squirt enough on the tires so you can smear it around, and grab one tire with each hand and use your thumb and forefinger and middle finger to massage it in until you feel it getting sticky.

You can put a little less on the fronts... you don't want them to grab too much.

[NotWalkinBlind]

BTW, there's really no such thing as making any car... including AWD touring cars... hook up "running unprepped parking lots," either... not really hook up.

But hey... if it's an unprepped surface and you don't have a leaf blower and you're out there race bashing with a coupla buds, everybody is running on the same surface, right?

The guy who is best at running as fast as possible on that surface will win, so learn how to get the best out of your car on that surface and it's all good, eh?

:cool::D

[got2bqik]

Inspgadget I ran my bsr's 5 race days thats 2 heats and a main on a fairly big track.I had problems slinging off conventional pre mounts ( was clued in about them) Nic Case ran the caps on his record run at what 134+ and didn't hear of any failure. So capped BSR's can handle 1/10th pan car's
Tim

[InspGadgt]

I didn't say they couldn't...I know people who do. But those who race with them have the benefit of a lot of testing by many people to know what compound works on their track without shredding. Without that it will be hit or miss until he finds the right compound for his surface. And that can get quite expensive.

[got2bqik]

No body at my local track runs rubber tires. I stumbled across BSR and they worked really well on preped and unpreped surfaces and had a good life span.Starting this season I got a pile of CS-22's and CS-27'S that we have been running with good results. Your set up has to work with your tire type and hardness. It may take some time and some tires but you can find a set-up that is hooked up and easy on tires.
Tim