Stretched e-Muggy (Baja-style) Build Thread

[Jahay]

WOW THAT IS A LOT OF ADDED WEIGHT!

i bet that weight is because of the beadlock wheels and not the tyres them selves! HMMMM there must be other light normal style glue wheels we can use that accept the baja tyre???

you havent weighed the wheels and tyres separetly by any chance have you??

THat is a lot more weight than i really want to add honestly... My alloy spi and badland tyres weigh 310grams per corner... i wouldnt mind going to 450grams per corner with the added power... but 560g!!!!!! nearly double!!! it does look like your truck has no prob pushing the heavy tyres around, but i will really have to think about it... may ask around and see if there are any other normal wheels...

Have you just used the beadlocks to lock the tyre to the wheel??? i was thinking that brushless power would be too much for beadlocks and you would need to glue as well as use the beadlocks to hold the tyre on??? have you had any probs?

[brian015]

Originally Posted by Jahay

WOW THAT IS A LOT OF ADDED WEIGHT!

i bet that weight is because of the beadlock wheels and not the tyres them selves! HMMMM there must be other light normal style glue wheels we can use that accept the baja tyre???

you havent weighed the wheels and tyres separetly by any chance have you??

THat is a lot more weight than i really want to add honestly... My alloy spi and badland tyres weigh 310grams per corner... i wouldnt mind going to 450grams per corner with the added power... but 560g!!!!!! nearly double!!! it does look like your truck has no prob pushing the heavy tyres around, but i will really have to think about it... may ask around and see if there are any other normal wheels...

Have you just used the beadlocks to lock the tyre to the wheel??? i was thinking that brushless power would be too much for beadlocks and you would need to glue as well as use the beadlocks to hold the tyre on??? have you had any probs?

No glue, just the beadlocks - and no problems. We'll see how well they hold up to people running the MMXL/2028 combo, but I've read of no complaints. I'm not sure that the fact that they are beadlocks really adds that much weight to them - they are just very beefy all around. When I had them apart to tape them last summer I should have weighed them, but didn't.

[othello]

@Jahay
You might want to try those Baja wheels then. Glued with no beadlock. Front wheel wheighs 370gr and rear one 475gr. I'm using them also with the afore mentioned 23mm wheel extenders on my Baja/Truggy build.

But i had to shave some plastic off the wheels as the extenders thread is not long enough to securly mount those wheels. Not an optimal solution either if you want proper concentricity.

Without modifications to the wheels it looked that way:


When using those extenders you will have to wrap the hex with some thin Alu foil (brian015 already mentioned that. I cut some strips from a can of coke) otherwise it will look that way:


@brian015
Always red your thread. Good stuff. Good modifications. Did your beadlock wheels fit properly to the extenders?