New SAND BLASTER'S for the FRONT
Well... as many you know I've been working (for a very long time, sorry) on a Sand Scorcher Baja Racer. After seeing some very good examples where you've beating me to it. I decided I needed something new for front tyres. But I wanted them to match up with rears. I hope you like them ??? So I started by cutting the central run of tread from a Standard set of Buggy Champ rear Blaster's, see pic 2. then glue back together using Black tire glue (easily available on ebay).
You obviously can't use the usual 3 piece front wheels. So use a normal Buggy Champ/Rough Rider middle piece and fit that inside your cut down tyre, as normal. Then get the front and rear pieces that you'd normally use on the rear wheel and cut out about 2mm from the middle of each cover, see pics. The only difficult part about this is you need to cut a very even parralell line each time or else the wheel will have no balance. Once you work out a way to do it its quite straight forward. (On the rear cover you need to make the centre hole large enough to fit on to the middle hub properly). Glue the two halves of each front and rear covers back together. Voila!!!! bolt your wheel up as usual (8mm bolts) Job Done !!!!! A lot more realistic front tyres... Hope you like, let me know what you think..
ps. before you ask the rest of the car is coming along nicely.... it won't be long (hopefully)
Lots of you have asked about the glue, they say you can use normal CA, but used this (pic below) a flexy one from 5 star adhesives. Also I forgot to mention I taped the glued joint on the inside of the tyre.. Looking forward to seeing more of these on your cars guys...
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My New Sand Blaster front tyres
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Cut out the centre tread
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Clean off the cuts before gluing together
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Cut 2mm from middle wall of front cover
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Same again on rear cover
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Clean off cuts
Glue back together
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Voila !!! done
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The glue, a flexi CA in black..
If you liked those pictures, you should see these...
Re-Re Sand Scorcher Project part 4 Work on the body continues
Comments
mccoy
that looks pretty special
Moostar
This is looking really really nice & I'm sure these will set it off a treat
Thanks for sharing how you achieved this, I might give something like this ago on mine - when I get round to it
Can't wait to see this finished.
Powerbruiser
Now that's smart! Love the result. Always a pleasure to see some great solutions!
Hope you havent a copyright 
stickerbod
They look the business Steve, can't wait to see the end result of your Scorcher
KEV THE REV
Great work
Toykid
Now we can all have sand blaster lettering on the front tires of our srb's. Great idea, thanks for sharing
please add to the SRB Group Sig 
Skottoman
Are those Sand Blaster 315's?
SRB Bloke
@ Skottoman - thats it 915's on the rear and 315's on the front..
@ Toykid - we've got to have lettering all round its a must..
THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR ALL COMMENTS
anchordriver
Thats a fab idea mate , well done . can you tell us what sort of glue you used to join tires back togeather .
Stan :0)
That's so cool great idea going to give it a try
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Dirbee
What a great idea!! I've been looking at all kinds of tires for the Scorcher.. Found some great wheels, but I don't really like the smoothies.. This is awesome! Only an SRB Bloke could come up with this
djaxy
sweet idea and perfectly done
gr2fltp
Time well spent Steve (got it right
) another finishing touch worth all the time put into it 
Are they runners or show tyres? just wonder if they peel at speed like remoulds? 
Origineelreclamebord
Reminds me of the ones I made for my project Sand Scorcher
I used the same principle for making the front tires, and I believe I also removed one line of blocks in the tire - I just didn't like the smaller diameter of the RR front tires, so I needed something nice to match the rears as well 
I didn't alter the wheels though, I just used RR front wheels, but they are a bit more round than the rears when you do that. Nice to see it done properly! 
axemandavva
Excellent work, the wheel looks superb.
SMOKE-DOG
Wow, cut-n-shut Sand Blasters. Genius!
j-man
Wow, now thats a great idea and one i may use if you don't mind?
I think i love you !!! in a manly way of course !
GRRRRRRR.....lol
MAD-BEE
Hi a set of these on the front with sand blasters on the rear of the new holiday buggy would look very neat! Great thinking!
japper7
top job m8
SCORCHER KID
superb job,does'nt matter how long it takes,.......looking forward to seeing the finished job..
SRB Bloke
Thanks Guys, @anchordriver- I'll find the bottle and let you know which glue it was. @gr2fltp- they are designed for runners, Proline guys glue tyre halves together a lot. But not tested fully yet.
) @j-man you go for it, the more I see the happier I'll be.
I've got them the chassis now (WOW!!
Once you've done a couple they don't take long, it was idea that took me ages.
Thanks to everyone, the comments make it all more enjoyable
Fernado Alonso
Wow they look asome man nice job
JWeston
Spot on and very very neatly done!
brendogs
nice idear my friend looks great glad to hear your buggys nearly done looking at your idears should be worth the wait have fun
Ram318
Very nice work
bfst24
great how too.isee how they do it now,thanks
Singleseven
well it's about time...
Quality work Steve; love it.
musashi.dk
simply brilliant.. they look awesome....
Mr duke
WOW!!!!! thanks for the tip what a briliant idea!!!!!!!! well done you have helped me in a big way like J-man said i think i love you too!!! lol
def4x4
That tire/wheel modification looks great, thanks for sharing it. I did a similar mod with other tires but the glue i used woudt not hold! Coudt you tel me wheir you get those gleu from!
steve3smart
WOW. I'm stunned. Excellent work
Dante77
Awesome mod, thanks for sharing!
Do you need to use the rear wheel outer halves or will the standard fronts also work?
SRB Bloke
Thanks again to you all, I hope to see more soon... @Dante77- you can use the original covers, but they slip inside the tyre rim because there is a deeper lip on the rear tyres to the front. (they don't look as good if you use the originals.)
Dam 10
Great idea, they look cool. Can't wait to see them on a buggy...
sturge
They look the dogs dangly bits!!
So what is your address and how much will you charge for 2 pairs!!!
Look so much better than original RR front tyres.
Meakz1973
Absolutely superb. These look fantastic and you make it sounds pretty easy! I'm concerned about my apparent inability to cut in a perfectly straight line though! Well done on these!
trf_414_m2
I used to create custom tyres for the front end of my Lazer ZX-S when I raced it a lot of time ago... In case I need specific fronts that were only moulded as rears, I cut them just the same way you showed here. About the glue, I used standard cyano for the process without a single degluing issues. In fact, if you cut a real rubber tyre (Proline, Losi...) and join both cuts together just seconds after, you´ll see that they stay 'glued' without any glue... Try this. So the degluing issues are more related to rubber quality than cyano one....
slimmy
Bloke, This is so cool. I cant believe I missed this. I am very impressed. Nice work my friend.
Dannie Boy
You make it sound so easy 'NOT' LOL.
dAN.
JennyMo
Beautiful work! I should have known someone would have done this already - wish I'd found your how-too as I've just done mine too!
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