Thread: Tyres / wheels for RC18?
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Old 26-03-2010
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Hi again!

The RC18 is more popular as a bashing/toy rather than a car for racing IMO. The most popular car over here appears to be the FTX Blaze/LRP Shark car. It seems to be much more beefed up and heavy duty, and comes with 12mm hexes as std so fitting aftermarket wheels is dead easy. Not much help I know, but as Darren has said he is on of the best shops for 1/18 scale, as they were one of the first to stock the original Mini-T.

The 1/10th scale touring wheels look fine on the Blaze/Shark but as you rightly say may look a bit big on the RC18. However, you will have much more options with tyres, and they will probably last longer as well. People have run trued down foams using the hex adapters on the RC18 (52mm diameter). Gecko foams also seem popular as well (search online for adamsracing - he does them pretrued to 52mm as well!

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Mark
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