Fuchs wheels with high sidewall tyre

Hi fellas,

some of you might remember my Porsche 914/6.
3 years ago there were no Fuchs wheels available, so I faked some using HPI vintage 5-Spoke wheels. But I never was really satisfied. Now that there are the HPI CupRacer Fuchs wheels, I wanted to give them a try. A first test fit with the original CupRacer tyres disappointed - the sidewall of the tyre was too low for my taste. The HPI vintage tyres have a higher sidewall and the same inner diameter at the frontside, but are wider and have a much larger inner diameter at the backside. So I decided to modify the Cup Racer wheels to take the HPI Vintage tyres. It is rather easy if you have a dremel tool!

1. Cut off the last ring of the Vintage wheel and smoothen the edges.
2. Sand down the last bead of the CupRacer wheel to about 1mm so you can slide on the ring up to the second last bead.

3. CA glue wheels and let cure

4. Glue tyres to wheels at frontside, otherwise they pop off too easily.
Voila, there you go! I like it much better now!