Radial tires for RC12L

[Lizardking]

I fixed and cleaned up a vintage fiberglass RC12L. Added a spare brushless motor and an airplane ESC I had lying around. The car drives great at slow to moderate speeds but its almost uncontrollable once i accelerate, even on slow settings on the ESC and expo on the remote I have to feather it. I drove it around on a tennis court near my house and it was great, but the old foam tires are in really bad condition and started losing chunks. I want to keep driving it but need to put power to the ground and think some rubber tires would do the trick.

Anyone know where I can get radial tires for the RC12L? Looking for something like the in the photo.

[juicedcoupe]

There are hard rubber tires for current 1/12 cars but they use the three bolt pattern.

There was a thread somewhere about converting a RC12 to use newer wheels.

[Lizardking]

Oh I’ll look for that thread then. Converting to new bolt pattern and using new wheels would be better than finding vintage tires.

[Dangeruss]

FWIW the picture of the car with rubber tires is an RC10L (not a RC12L) with Proline 2567 rear wheels/Proline 1063 road hawg tires and RC10 buggy front wheels/Proline 1061 road hawg tires.

Converting the axle to accept newer wheels like juicedcoupe said is a good option, but another one is n20capri here on the site made adapters to run 3 bolt wheels that he sells (sold?) through shapeways:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/VGLQFFT6M/vintage-team-associated-rc12l-wheel-hubs

Could drop him a PM or Email to see what he knows about getting a pair.

[RC10th]

Foam tires aren't hard to replace on the rims, truing them without a truer is the difficult part

[Lizardking]

FWIW the picture of the car with rubber tires is an RC10L (not a RC12L) with Proline 2567 rear wheels/Proline 1063 road hawg tires and RC10 buggy front wheels/Proline 1061 road hawg tires.

Converting the axle to accept newer wheels like juicedcoupe said is a good option, but another one is n20capri here on the site made adapters to run 3 bolt wheels that he sells (sold?) through shapeways:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/VGLQFFT6M/vintage-team-associated-rc12l-wheel-hubs

Could drop him a PM or Email to see what he knows about getting a pair.

Wow thank you so much. I recall having road hawgs on my Traxass Rustler back in the day. I’ll look into the shapeways link. I have a 3D printer and some ABS filament.