best bashing tires for savage

Hi guys, does anyone have a favorite bash wheel and tire for the savage? I'm almost finished with my flm coversion and I'm ready for rubber.

[blueb8llz]

how tall do you want the tires? i can recommend some that arent so tall such as proline mashers, and badlands, or losi zombie maxx.

ill second the zombie maxx, i use them on offset rpm rims and love them, they hook up great on everything, they arent huge tires though

[MTBikerTim]

The zombie maxs balloon pretty badly don't they?

I like the really big cen wheels. With the Savage XL axle extenders (requires the XL dog bones and diff out drives as well) and hex adapters I think it could be a pretty good setup.

[bl-is-future]

i run proline 40 series velocity rims and bowtie tires. Great tire all around and really light and dont balloon to bad at all.

i have a ring of duct tape on the inside of my zombies along with trinity three stage foams and ballooning is minimal...at full speed they balloon some but not too bad

What about stock savage xl wheels and tires?

[bl-is-future]

if you secure the esc good you will not have any problems. I have flown my savage at least 12 feet high if not higher and i am still on the v1. Now the v1 im sure is just luck but the case holding up is because i secure it well. My fan is also perfectly fine.

edit - k have no idea how this got in this thread.... it was intended for another

[jhautz]

+1 on the Zombiemaxx tires. Great for all around on all surfaces and they last forever.

The zombies are killer I used to have a set but sold them along with my gmaxx they were just as you said.

[brushlessboy16]

badlands :D, grip great on everything

[blueb8llz]

my zombies barely balloon at all on full speed. i have one layer of gorilla tape on the inside and using the ofna yellow molded foams.

[rhylsadar]

hi

imo zombies are quite good for real offraod. badlands are nice also. they just look a little small.

tires that have good grip in offroad conditions need to be soft and therefore they baloon at high speeds. thats a trade off. 40 series proline are not really usable in real offroad conditions. they are nice on a track or flat grassfields, parks etc.

i would also not tape your tires. in the medium run some dirt and maybe some water will enter the tires and once the tape gets loose inside which it will over time you got one wobbling tire there.
you can fight the balooning tendency a bit with harder foams. the green panther foams are the hardest i know of. they sould fit the zombies. not sure if you can put them into the smaller badlands.

i havn't run the terra pins yet but i can imagine they are not bad for offroad.

bye
rhylsadar

[blueb8llz]

which part of the tape do you think gets loose? the edges or the end of the tape? i usually overlap the edge about a 1/2 inch so when the tires do balloon and stretch the extra 1/2 inch should hopefully cover it. or i have heard of some people just taping around the tires twice, and not overlap at all.
yea i wanted to try those green panther foams, but couldnt find any at the time. i hear those are quite well too. but i think you want softer foams and tires if your gonna be doing offroading, which is why i chose the ofna molded medium yellew foams.

Yea the only time I will tape is when I'm using a beadlock like the set of x-75's I had on my zombies a year ago (I wished I never sold those) they were taped and the tape started comming loose around the edges and I was amazed to see that anywhere you dont use tape the tire will balloon like crazy its kinda funny to see. Anyway they say you should ca glue the edges of the tape and I did but they still came loose. Maybe its time for some zombies again! Now what about some beadlocks?