Who would be interested in 17mm adapters for the crt.5?!?!?
 

Alright so I went about this with Rob Forsberg @ wheel extensions and bottom line is I will never deal with that guy again.

BUT... I just contacted Jamie from FLM (also contacted mike so we'll see, might have competition lol) and he said he will do a short run of crt.5 adapters so we can run 17mm tires. I told him to make the entire adapter about one inch, so that it will help account for the zero offset of buggy wheel.s The .5 needs all the width/length it can get (in my eyes) so this should make the 0 offset wheels closer to "half" offset wheels (actually a little wider, since most buggy wheels are about 1.7 wide).

He is going to email me on the date of availability and the price so I will post those here. This is a short test run...so they may not be made again. If your interested, get some now!!

Mike

I'm interested...tired of blowing 12mm hexes.

cool..I told him I could probably find an easy 6 including myself. It really should be easy for him to do...use the rustler or slash 17mm adaptor but just bore the axle hole slightly smaller to make sure it fits snug on the crt.5 axle.

I think once he sees the first few sets flying off the shelf he will stock them on the site! The crt.5 NEEDS 1/8 buggy tires! They offer the best tire/wheel combo's (imo) for the crt.5!

Word. I talked to mike about that a while ago... I'm sure they would sell. Count me in for a set.

Email Jamie at FLM - He's making them for the stampede he just has to drill out the centre hole less...

Assuming these will also fit on the mini ste I'll take a pair!

He did contact Jamie. That's who is doing them for him.

+1 if price is`good

I'm also in for 2 pairs

I might pick up a pair. Im supposed to be picking up a Jammin .5 today. Anybody have any pics of what the buggy wheels look like on one?

Cool guys...im glad I wasnt lying to Jamie when I said there was a market for them :)

I talked to Mike as well and he knows Jamie is taking care of it (since its as easy as boring the axle hole slightly smaller on the adapters Jamie already makes).

I am not sure if Jamie is intending to distribute these, or sell them directly (since its a test batch) but I will suggest he sends them to Mike to sell since this forum rocks and that is where probably 75%+ of the interest has come from.

I will update you guys when Jamie emails me back on price and time frame of availability.

Sorry I dont have a pic of the crt.5 on buggy wheels but I will do my best to snap one of the crt.5 chassis with the axles sitting inside the buggy wheels just for reference.

+1

I would be interested as well if the price is right. It would be great to have all my 1/8th buggy wheels and tires available for my crt.5.

I think it's really important that they extend the wheel hubs out as wide as possible to take into account 0 offset buggy wheels, especially for those of us that use Mike's conversion kit with the extra long chassis. I currently use HPI 1/10 truck wheels because they are offset quite a bit and it gives the crt.5 a wider stance. I'm not sure I would give up a wider stance in exchange for buggy tires.

Dont worry Nougat Ive got it covered. I have two crt.5's both with Mikes chassis and its dying for some width.

I told him I want 1" of extension PER side (total of two inces wider). This would make it another almost half inch wider than running "half" offset wheels. So even with 0 offset buggy wheels it will be wide. I didnt want to go any more than 1" on them as I think the bearings/axles will wear prematurely with that much leverage on them.

Nice!

Keep us updated on them. I just picked up mt .5 today and want to put some buggy wheels on it.