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I just got a set of drift wheels for my tt02 I am have two questions if someone can help.

1. The tyres keep sliding off the wheels, I assume I need to glue them on?

2. They had foam that came with them sticky on one side? Is this supposed to be put between the tyre and rim?

They are a yeah racing wheel, the tyres were on the wheels when I bought them

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I didn't know drift wheels come with separated tires and rims, even inserts. But then, I've only tried one set from Tamiya yet that came pre-glued with hard-as-rock tires.

Suddenly, Moosey's Fangtastic Drift School comes to my mind, where he build his own tires to equip a Hotshot with. http://www.rc101tube.com/show_movie.asp?id=4 :lol:

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Quick & dirty fix is superglue the tyres to wheel.

Some wrap tape to wheel until tyre won't slide off. Like the foam.

Some ppl use o-rings to do the same.

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I have loads of drift tyres for different wheels.

Things like the MST tyres fit mst wheels with no glue the hard part is getting them on. The way to do that is to heat the tyre in boiling water and then put it on.

It sounds to me that the tyres may be too big for the rim but that sounds odd if they were bundled together.

I experienced this when I bought some drift tyres off ebay for my tt01 and they were simply too loose even super glue would not have held them on.

I ended up purchasing some new wheels from ebay and then the tyres fitted perfectly.

If it is a close fit then I would super glue them on. If they seem far too loose then I would probably invest in some new drift rims (they can be got on ebay really cheap)

O-rings work great and are especially good if you want to swap tyres at a later date.

If you need a good reliable seller of drift wheels let me pm me and I will send you the ebay link of who I bought mine from and if you want to see the model I had issues getting them to fit its the Lamborghini Countach in my showroom.

Hope this helps.

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In your opinion can I convert four Lancia Delta rims to drift wheels?

Can I add to the rims some drift tires?

Max

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I see no reason why not. Most drift tyres fit standard touring size rims. I believe the Lancia rims are standard diameter?

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Lancia Delta rims are standard diameter and width (26mm) but I didn't know there are drift tires for normal wheels.

I always believed that drift tires are made of hard plastic.

Do you have some brand, tire model or link to see these products please?

Max

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The drift tyres I use are indeed made of hard plastic, but they fit standard touring car rims. You fit them by heating them up in boiling water, then sliding them over the rims. They then contract as they cool, gripping the rims tightly.

The ones I use are made by Odyssey Garage, a cottage industry consisting of one man and his lathe. I can't seem to find him on Ebay anymore, so I don't know if he still makes them. I am sure many others do though.

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Nice but these Tamiya tires are 24 mm narrow, my wheels are 26 mm.

Odyssey Garage has a link, a website, a contact?

Many thanks

max

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Strike what I wrote here previously...

I noticed that difference as well, description says they match all 1/10 touring cars though.

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Ok guy, thank you a lot.

I'm planning to make a road version Delta Integrale, red with silver rims and drift tires.

Max

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This is a long term project but yes, I'll post the photos on the The Builts section.

Max

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HPI T drift are the industry standard drift tyre, they fit 26mm rims.

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Bit late to the party here, have had a few busy weeks.

Anyway, to answer the question from the TS. The foamtape is used to hold the tire onto the rim. You stick it to the rim and push the tire over. Make sure you don't push the foam off the rim when putting the tire on, or it might get stuck in between the lip of the rim and the tire, making the tire sit crooked and having a wobbly wheel.

If anyone needs good drift tires, don't go for Tamiya or any of the cheap brands like Yeah Racing, 3Racing, Boom Racing etc. They are all useless! Some might work, but they are ripoffs of other drift-dedicated manufactures and you have no way of telling what exact hardness tire it is.
HPI T-drifts have been the standard for a few years, and they are a great tire for beginners to learn how to drift a standard 50/50 (no overdrive gears/pulleys) 4WD drift car. They work fine on asphalt, tiles and concrete, just not on carpet. If you are a little bit more experienced with drifting, try a tire from for example MST, StreetJam, Yokomo or any of the less known drift manufactures like Mikuni, RC-Art and TopLine.
MST makes a huge range of different hardness tires suitable for almost every type of surface. MST Silver (hard) works great on the European style carpet tracks, Purple (HP) is the best on polished concrete and Blue (harder) works great on rough concrete or asphalt. You can also choose different shape tires, from a hard edge to a complete rounded contact surface. The shape of the tire makes a huge difference in performance, as you change the way the tire gets grip. A round tire may have lots of forward speed, but very little side bite. A hard edge tire has a lot of sidebite, but it may be to agressive for the front throwing the car into a spin every time you turn the wheel. Mixing&matching different tire shapes from the same compound gives great result. I personally prefer to run CSR medium rounded tires in the front and GA26 hard edge tires in the back.
Offcourse all this is with a CS setupped drift chassis, meaning the driveline is overdriven so the rear wheels spin faster than the front, making the car oversteer by it self so you can countersteer like a real drift car but with a 4WD RC chassis.

Would anyone be interested in seeing a topic about my competition drift car with maybe some extra info about drift driving techniques and setups?

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Is it just me or the t-drifts are overpriced?

For parking lot fun drifting I used raikou tires but have lately switched to mst (need at least two different compounds, grip changes with outside temperature)

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Depends on where you get them, and if you want either the simple slicks or the threaded pattern tires. I always ran the #4406 HPI T-drift slicks set, and they were less than 20$ for a set, so about the same price as MST, Yokomo or Streetjam tires. Offcourse there are shops selling them for way more, but its the same story with any other tire.

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Would anyone be interested in seeing a topic about my competition drift car with maybe some extra info about drift driving techniques and setups?

Yes please! I like fiddling with my drift set up, but I've no clue what I'm doing so if you can cover the basics, that'd be grand.

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I like the predictablity of the Yokomo drift tyres, but they're expensive. They're also really tricky to put onto a set of wheels, so the last set I bought from the Far East pre-glued to rims!

Tamiya drift tyres always get a bad rap, but if you use them outside they're extremely hard-wearing, you just need quite a bit of power to overcome their grip.

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As far as drifting on a higher level goes, the least amount of grip is the best grip. You create the grip by tuning your chassis and your throttle control. The latter is a technique called Korogashi and basicly means that you need to keep your wheels rolling instead of spinning to get speed. Once the tires spin, the grip is gone and you'll go slower. Balancing your wheels right on the edge of spinning and rolling is the best way to slide with speed.

Tires like T-drifts, Tamiya's and other hard rubber of soft plastic tires simply have to much grip. They are fine to practice if you are just getting started, but remember that you will be teaching yourself the wrong techniques and once you got used to those its hard to learn something new.

I personally dislike the Yokomo tires a lot. The single ring tires as they are called are the worst. Their newer R2 and R4 tires (asphalt and carpet officially) are better, but still not so good. They are very unpredictable as they have a lot of forward grip, but no side bite. So its easy to get up to speed, but very hard to hold your angle as the car wants to over-rotate.

Here's a video on the Korogashi technique a friend of mine made after our trip to Japan last December. The green/white/black GT86 you see in the video is mine :) The video only explains the very basics of this technique, but it is still very interesting to watch!

Yes please! I like fiddling with my drift set up, but I've no clue what I'm doing so if you can cover the basics, that'd be grand.

Where do you think would be the right place to put such a topic? My competition drift car is a Yokomo DRB, not a Tamiya.. but the setup tricks and techniques are universal for every type of chassis.

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