[VintageMA]

One thing I had read somewhere about the issue of ballooning did mention drilling the vent holes in the plastic wheels to help with ballooning. Like you guys have said it doesn't make too much sense - but in some ways it also does.

If the air inside the tire is trapped and air can not get either in or out, then when the tire starts to expand it is is restricted to expansion with the limited volume amount of air in the tire - I think this would lead to a tire that balloons with a sharper edge from the center out (ie: a pie-cutter formation starts faster than if the whole tire could suck in air and expand more naturally with an increased internal volume).

I agree on the point of no venting will produce a bouncy landing impact (like a basketball hitting the ground - there will be no dampening response from the tire).

I would think that the venting process would be one where you would either put the hole in the wheel or the tire - not both.

As I have the same Badlands/Maximizers you guys have for my E-Revo - I can say one thing about the balancing that they were almost balanced when I put them one and maybe the foam has shifted around abit through tire flexing and ballooning, but they are much worse now after about 5 or so runs that when I first put everything together.