Long Story: Key Truck and the search of nice wheels

[esmuz 48]

Hi, sorry in advance because I don't really know where to post this, it's for a build but not a Tamiya car, but using Tamiya parts.. 

The story: I got a WPL D12 Suzuki Carry truck, probably most of you heard about it, super cheap, fully proportional, nice looking cool thing for 30$. Okay it's a toy, but it looks great and is fun to use at home with your kids. 

 

Of course I had to improve it, at least visually, and everybody knows that nothing better than a pair of good wheels to make anything look good. 

This is one of the best examples I found ( no idea which rims are.. the tires are Tamiya drifting ones )

 

I was trying to find alternatives to change the original ones, but keeping the sense of scale.. As this is a Japanese Key Car, wheels are smaller than regular cars, so any 1/10 touring car wheels tend to look too big and end up making the truck look stupid. 

In the search for the wheels I found that most people are using the ones included with the Swift and Mini Tamiya M-chassis models, but I personally don't like the looks and are quite hard to find these days.. Alternatives are 3D printed drift wheels, but I am not into drifting. 

Looking for alternative solutions, I started thinking on using wheels of smaller scales, like Tamtechs, or QD series.. stuff that are 1/12 or  1/14. And came up with these rare Option part for QD buggies called QD Slick F&R 1/10  TA43003 , a set of complete wheels to fit QD buggies. 

 

I think these wheels look amazing, at the beginning I thought these where F1 wheels, and I guess these might share some parts with F1 1/10 cars from the past.. but I found were made for these small QQ Buggies. The wheels seemed to be perfect because the rear wheels hex is actually 6mm very close to the 5mm of the D12, so with a minor .5mm layer the wheels might work perfectly without the need of a 5mm to 12mm hex. 

Rear wheel instructions:

 

I couldn't find much info about them, and made my guessing about the size.. I read on a French forum that were just 58mm diameter.. 

The D12 original wheels are 55mm so, I thought it might work visually. 

I found a guy here in Spain who had batch of 4 sets and I got them 4 for a reasonable price.. I had to try

This is 1 of the 4 sets, gorgeous right?

 

The problem, the wheels are actually pretty big!!

I never thought a 1/14 slick might be so big..  It's clear these wheels were made to look comical and not realistic.

 

The front ones are 63mm in external diameter, and the rear ones, are 68mm!!! 

Also the width of the tires is a massive 33mm for the fronts and 46mm for rears.

This is how the truck looks with front and rear  wheels..

This one is using just the front ones ( a bit better? )

I know it looks cool haha.. and might end up keeping the wheels like this, but nowadays it is not what I was looking for. 

 

So, THE QUESTION: 

Both front and rear rims are 42mm (1.6") diameter, the front ones are 30mm wide the rear ones are 41mm.

I asume the rear ones are unusable for this project, but maybe I can find some thinner slicks to fit the front 42mm rims and keep the total wheel size around the 55mm of the original wheels. 

Do you guys know about any tire I might be able to fit these front rims??? 

 

Thanks!! 

PS: Got two more sets I might want to sell if anyone is interested for anything.

Any comments just about the truck itself, the looks or whatever is also welcome. 

 

Front wheels scheme. Washers, tube,  nuts and wrench are included!!

[JennyMo 3526]

I can't help with street/slick tyres... but if you're looking for more scale wheels and tyres, RC4WD have a range of 1.0" wheels and tyres for mini/micro crawlers (typically around the 1:18 - 1:24th scale) and the tyres are just over 50mm outside diameter. There are some quite aggressive Mud-terrain style for mini crawlers, but also more mild All-terrain type:

https://store.rc4wd.com/10-Tires_c_599.html

Something to consider perhaps?

Jenny x

[esmuz 48]

11 minutes ago, JennyMo said:

I can't help with street/slick tyres... but if you're looking for more scale wheels and tyres, RC4WD have a range of 1.0" wheels and tyres for mini/micro crawlers (typically around the 1:18 - 1:24th scale) and the tyres are just over 50mm outside diameter. There are some quite aggressive Mud-terrain style for mini crawlers, but also more mild All-terrain type:

https://store.rc4wd.com/10-Tires_c_599.html

Something to consider perhaps?

Jenny x

Hmm it's an option, but I was looking for a more racing look. Thanks anyway!

[rich_f 233]

I'm not sure how many m-chassis sized wheels you've looked at but there must be a set that resembles those 5-spoke wheels (which look amazing btw, I love how tamiya used to make an effort with wheels and tyres, how they are different sizes front and rear like old race cars - would be cool if they still offered that option).

If you found a set of m-chassis wheels you like (and they don't have to be tamiya, plenty of other manufacturers make them), then achieving 55mm outer diameter of the tyre is easy as tamiya and other manufacturers make 55d tyres for m-chassis wheels.

[Busdriver 6209]

To use m chassis wheels you’ll need hex adaptors. Plenty around. I’m playing around with one of these as well. Waiting for a body kit before I make wheel choices?