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nativepaul · 07:04 PM

I picked up a set of Medial Pro Tarmac II tyres they only had them pre-mounted on yellow rims instead of the cool black Hyper7 ones I got for for the Road rages, not as good looking, but the tyres are 50 times stiffer and handle a million times better than the Crappy Proline Road Rages that flopped around like an elephant on stilts giving me understeer and making cornering erratic and unpredictable.

The Medial Pro Tarmac II pre-mounted wheels and tyres, there not belted as such but they have a Honeycomb internal structure instead of using inner foams, that supports it VERY well, they feel like there made of solid rubber only they don't weigh enough.

I almost forgot there is a downside to them, they are a fair bit lower profile than the RoadRages, the peaks on my eagletree went down by 10-12 Amps and I lost a few MPH top speed, my 45 shore ones seem to grip better tho (there available in 25,35,45,60 shore) so acceleration hasn't suffered, I will be getting that speed back and more with LiPo soon so I haven't regeared but a bigger pinion could be used, if you want to check on Brian's Calculator my callipers make the Tarmac IIs 3.769" and the RoadRages 4.3165"

I received my Flightpower 4s 4350 in the post yesterday, I ran the storage charge down at low throttle then charged up and ran it hard, from the start I thought I had blown something, it accelerated away slower than before and released a puff of smoke, I ran over and disconnected finding that the smoke had stopped and everything was still cool, it turns out the pinion had slipped and was burning off the threadlock causing the smoke, a quick reaplication of threadlock and retightening the grubscrew with the other end of the allenkey had it going again.

Holy [expletive of your choice]ing hell this things FAST and then some, easily half as fast again over the old setup despite the smaller tyres, I may get used to the power at some point but for now I think a 3s pack would have been enough, I need to set up some punch control on the MM and put my throttle thumb in some serious precision training as it will spin the wheels at what used to be its top speed.

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nativepaul RC-Monster Aluminum Offline Posts: 522 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sussex, England.	01.15.2010, 07:02 PM I picked up a set of Medial Pro Tarmac II tyres they only had them pre-mounted on yellow rims instead of the cool black Hyper7 ones I got for for the Road rages, not as good looking, but the tyres are 50 times stiffer and handle a million times better than the Crappy Proline Road Rages that flopped around like an elephant on stilts giving me understeer and making cornering erratic and unpredictable. The Medial Pro Tarmac II pre-mounted wheels and tyres, there not belted as such but they have a Honeycomb internal structure instead of using inner foams, that supports it VERY well, they feel like there made of solid rubber only they don't weigh enough. I almost forgot there is a downside to them, they are a fair bit lower profile than the RoadRages, the peaks on my eagletree went down by 10-12 Amps and I lost a few MPH top speed, my 45 shore ones seem to grip better tho (there available in 25,35,45,60 shore) so acceleration hasn't suffered, I will be getting that speed back and more with LiPo soon so I haven't regeared but a bigger pinion could be used, if you want to check on Brian's Calculator my callipers make the Tarmac IIs 3.769" and the RoadRages 4.3165" I received my Flightpower 4s 4350 in the post yesterday, I ran the storage charge down at low throttle then charged up and ran it hard, from the start I thought I had blown something, it accelerated away slower than before and released a puff of smoke, I ran over and disconnected finding that the smoke had stopped and everything was still cool, it turns out the pinion had slipped and was burning off the threadlock causing the smoke, a quick reaplication of threadlock and retightening the grubscrew with the other end of the allenkey had it going again. Holy [expletive of your choice]ing hell this things FAST and then some, easily half as fast again over the old setup despite the smaller tyres, I may get used to the power at some point but for now I think a 3s pack would have been enough, I need to set up some punch control on the MM and put my throttle thumb in some serious precision training as it will spin the wheels at what used to be its top speed. Hot Bodies Lightning 2 Pro carbon, Mega 22/30/2, MMM, 4s3-5Ah. Tamiya F201 carbon, Mamba 7700, MM, 2s A123 2.3ah. Xray XT8, 1518, MMM, 4s5Ah. Lots of boats. fastelectrics.net Last edited by nativepaul; 01.15.2010 at 07:04 PM.