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Old 06-23-2005, 04:15 PM
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I was thinking about getting a set of foam tires, but i was wondering about their life span, do they last longer than the rubber tires, most of the use is on somewhat rough parking lot surfaces?
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i just got some foams and i beat on them. so far they have a good life span. or rubber i just get uneven treads that look horrible [:@] but if i were you definitly get some foams. TRC,JACO, and hpi even has some foams. have fun

this is my car with 30mm in the back and 28's in the front. they are the jaco nitro shoes
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Old 06-23-2005, 06:31 PM
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Nice beamer,
I run hpi belted x-patterns for rubber. I have run the jaco blue sedan foams, don't know what shore they are though.
But my latest pair I smoked down pretty good after about 12-14 tanks. That seemed alittle soon, but we were running hard on decent traction asphalt. I would defintely try the foams and ca glue the sidewalls to protect from chunking.[8D]
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Well I am not racing yet, but if were im sure they would be toast easily. Lol i was trying to start my car with the roto start in my rs4 and i broke a gear in the roto. but it still work. i have tested, but when it gets slow it will get caught and the gear will jamm. i think im gona get a pull start or maybe a box. thank you for the compliment on my car monitroplease. i appreciate it. payce

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Old 06-23-2005, 08:15 PM
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I just got a starter box for my tc3+ and it's sweet. I can leave the body on the whole time I run, I fuel it thru the front windshield hole.
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Default RE: foam tires vs rubber tires

Here might be usefull to you

http://www.nitrorc.com/articles/foam...p#foam%20tires

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