Best carpet tyres for 2wd SC?

[Adam F]

Guessing yellow pins, but can you get away with blues?

[Frecklychimp]

I use dBoots Nanobytes A compound on rear and Kourse Kings trimmed 2 rows off either side on front for carpet... same for dry Astro too.

Minipins are very aggressive and need trimming plus they last half as long as dBoots even Blue compound, yellows are worse obviously as they are softer, wouldn't bother with minipins on front as its far too much without lots of dremelling.

I stick with Fastrax yellow moulded inserts but Schuey have hard foams available now and AKA red moulded inners are supposed to be good but over twice the price of Fastrax plus AKA are a different shape which gives sidewalls less support.

With dBoots you have to trim the 3 reinforcement ribs out of the inside with moulded inserts or the tyre profile deforms badly

[mattybucks]

A lot of sc guys use blue pins as they last a bit longer, failing that yellows.

[Spoolio]

As above, yellows waaaaay to soft so avoid like plague unless you like grip rolling at every corner . I had blue mini pins on mine and it was stil a right b*****d until I dremelled off the 3 outer rows on the fronts and the rest of the pins had worn down a bit. That being said, I couldn't get Kourse Kings to work on my Blitz on carpet, it had no steering at all with them.

[(off)roadrunner]

if using the dBoots, use the AKA inserts, theyre moulded to fit round the ribs inside the tyre

[Frecklychimp]

No they are not,

the AKA ones are 1/8th inserts and the ribs on dBoots still need trimming as they are much deeper.than the grooves.

We went through all the options testing on a Thursday night session when Brooky had the 2wd Durango SCT to play with

[(off)roadrunner]

fitted fine inside my nanobytes without trimming and tyre profile is right all over the surface of it,

just took a little time to make sure they were all lined up on the ribs and work a treat. nice feel to them too, not too hard but not baggy like some of the other moulded ones (proline)