Jamus wrote:
That does look like a lot of fun. My touring car is the only rc I hadn't considered taking out in the snoGot any pics of the tires?
Of course... where are my manners? lol I would normally say touring cars aren't really suitable for this sort of thing, but this thing has an awd buggy's DNA and uses a bathtub chassis that is pretty easy to encase, which helps protect the all too sensitive electronics. The subie doesn't come with the inner body shell (tamiya dark inpact body) like the mitsubishi does. (I did not know this at the time) making an inner shell out of a PET bottle and some hook&loop fastener wasn't too hard though.
Here are some pics, in the first one you can see the studs pretty well; (p.s. she's taken a lot of hits since those pics but she's still beautiful to me)
From the back, lights off; (believe it or not there are 14 led's on the car!)
From the back, lights on;
left side, lights on;
More info on the studs;
what's worked best so far is tamiya rally block tires, with two rows of studs inserted from inside the tire through the dimple at the middle of the center blocks. The studs themselves are standard sewing pins (the steel ones with roundish flat metal heads) You punch them through the tire and then cut them to length.
They don't rip out easily at all (never hapened to us so far) but they do have one problem; they will recess into the tire almost instantly and loose their effect. To counter this we tried a variety of things, so far the most durable is to put a dab of CA on the head of each stud, one drop in each dimple around the stud itself (outside the tire) and a little dab of shoe goo over each pinhead.
It's not yet ideal, I tried putting a thick layer of shoe goo over the inside of the tire to keep the pins from receding but this resulted in an excessively hard tire that would not grip at all, just a dab around each pin that has previously glued with CA seems to work best.
I so wish someone made pre-studded tires!
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