grooving slash tire which nobs to cut, these or those?

[rootar]

which should i cut on the outside rows of tread the shorter nobs or the longer ones that wrap around the side a little?

[rootar]

opps ment to post this is the open forum could one of the mods move it please?

[brushlessboy16]

what are you trying to accomplish with this?

[MetalMan]

By putting grooves in the tread you are making the tread more flexible. In the case of the Slash tire, it's too firm so grooving enables you to get more traction.

If I remember right, a guy at work grooved the large outer lugs with positive results.

[rootar]

traction on our slick track. the knobs are SO hard they just slide ALL over the place you can barely get around the track under stock power and with brushless its so difficult. so by sipeing ALL the knobs and removing some from the edge the tire will roll and bite more in the corner rather than slide

[rootar]

thanks for the move MM, im almost done ill post pictures in a few minutes of the rears.

[rchippie]

In the past i have sprayed PB blaster on my tires . It softens them up .

[brushlessboy16]

Thank you for explaining..

Not sure about removing lugs, but spray some wd-40 on the treads it softend the rubber up like you wouldnt beleive..

Old drag racing trick :D

[rootar]

soaking them in turpintine and them sealing them off in a ziplock bag until right beofre the race is the absolute stickiest you can get a set of tires, but you can be assured that after that race they will be worthless.

i think this helped alot the tire just feel ALOT softer i snipped half the big outter lugs off and the inside halfs of the big center lugs. the tire on the left is the grooved on obviously with the stock on the right. you can see now their are no big continous lugs to slide all over with, just lots of small lugs with room to get a bite....should work good, i never had much luck with other tires when having big gaps between the tread so thats why i left half of each lug i sniped and made it into smaller ones.

[brushlessboy16]

very Nice

[rootar]

i tested the tires out yesterday afternoon, and it actually made a very noticable difference on my little track, dont get me wrong it still spun alot slid all over but it was much more controlable, i can pitch the truck into a slide and just hold around the turn, it spun out completely ALOT less, forward traction was still to be desired but it didnt pull hard to either side like the stock tires,

overall id say it is worth messing with, it only took me about an hour to do all 4 tires

[What's_nitro?]

Not to shabby! I'm sure you could feel the difference since the stock treads are so horrible to begin with. I tried cutting my tires too, but the rubber compound is just too hard so I didn't notice a difference. I picked up a set of the NewEra 17mm adapters and 1/8 buggy MOABs. That solved my traction problem! As I understand you have to run the stock tires for racing which is something I hope they change.

[BL_RV0]

Looks good.

[E-Revonut]

Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

Not to shabby! I'm sure you could feel the difference since the stock treads are so horrible to begin with. I tried cutting my tires too, but the rubber compound is just too hard so I didn't notice a difference. I picked up a set of the NewEra 17mm adapters and 1/8 buggy MOABs. That solved my traction problem! As I understand you have to run the stock tires for racing which is something I hope they change.

Having to use stock tires is gonna be up to the individual tracks. Unless ROAR sticks their nose into this new class and makes some "Really Outrageous Assanine Rules" Proline has stepped up to the plate and made a specific tire for these CORR trucks so I would like to think that tracks would allow other CORR tires besides stock.

looks good,might have to give it a try....what did you use to cut them ?...razorblade,dremel ??thanks for the pics