I modded one of the landies wheels and I really like how it turned out!!! Could not be better, I am now at 1"5/8 apparent diameter and 11/16" width. I think just like regular cars the wheels and tires play a huge role in the looks, even more so in RC because they can often be just slightly off scale and throw off the look. I think I am on the right path now




I machined the first lip step, removing maybe total a little over 1/8".







Now they fit perfectly with mini tires! The tires stretch just a little. Obviously the is the back half of the wheel! Would make for nice deep dish steelies though








To reduce the wheels offset (well increase if you talk actual car offset, reduce if you talk RC offset ) I also machined this :





Down to this (0.065" less):







Comparison of the modded wheel with lego tire vs original wheel:









Removing the first lip step also reduced the width even more, which is good for what I am after with these wheels:







Here the reduced aluminum wheel hub:







You can see how much closer the black hub is to the wheel:







This is with the tamiya mini tires:







And this is an offset/width comparison, the wheels will tuck in more which makes sense for the narrow rally wheels on escorts. I have another trick in head to further reduce offset but I am not sure yet.





Now the next thing that would look even better is modding the rig tires for these wheels. That will require reducing their sidewall height as well as reduce their diameter.