Stretching tires

[pieterv3814]

Okay so I've seen 1.9 tires stretched onto 2.2 wheels. But I'm just wondering if maybe you can stretch 1.75 or even 1.55 tires onto 2.2 wheels. I'm just looking for a cooler look. Anyone ever done this successfully. Thanks in advance guys.

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[hillbillyrc]

They might look neat but performance most likely going to suffer.

You can put 1.7 tires on 1.9 wheels.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

They might look neat but performance most likely going to suffer.

You can put 1.7 tires on 1.9 wheels.

How do you figure performance is going to suffer? If you customize the foams you might be alright.

I think it will look stupid though. Stretched tires look stupid 95% of the time.

 

[DukeMinnix]

stretching tires on an RC is a little different than real world scenarios. On RCs you're basically using a larger wheel to get a bigger bite on the sidewall with beadlocks. You're not actually stretching the tire like you are by putting a narrow tire on a wider wheel in the real world. So, long story short, you can most likely get a 1.7 onto a 2.2 if you can get the can inside and have the right foams trimmed for the 2.2 can.

 

[Inspector86]

I think a lot of it depends on the compound of the tire. A softer compound will stretch easier than a hard compound making the tire easier to mount and less likely to split. The down side of a 1.7 or 1.55 tire on a 2.2 wheel is that you have an overall smaller tire with less ground clearance and will require custom foams.

 

[durok]

C'mon, guys - it's all a matter of degrees. ;-)

I've already seen a couple pics posted several months back where a guy totally gave his RC vehicle a full-on mall-crawler makeover.

Guaranteed that they performed like poop on anything other than hardpack and shallow angles.

HOWEVER!

There are several tires out there with enough sidewall height to take a bump (in a FEW cases, two bumps) in wheel size from standard - yet still look and function fairly well.

 

[DukeMinnix]

C'mon, guys - it's all a matter of degrees. ;-)

I've already seen a couple pics posted several months back where a guy totally gave his RC vehicle a full-on mall-crawler makeover.

Guaranteed that they performed like poop on anything other than hardpack and shallow angles.

HOWEVER!

There are several tires out there with enough sidewall height to take a bump (in a FEW cases, two bumps) in wheel size from standard - yet still look and function fairly well.

I don't disagree... I only use the 4.75+ size 1.9s on 2.2s... I do it with custom clearanced inner foams so that the overall foam diameter isn't changed and the tire SHOULD react the same way it would on a 1.9 inner can, with the exception of I have had zero issue with tires debeading since starting to used this method.

 

[DukeMinnix]

Here are two of my recent setups, use a single stage foam on the yeti designed for the RB XLs, I just cut the inner diameter to fit the 2.2 can, and the trail ready ring version has a two stage setup inside and are on a crawler.

 

[the Jeffro]

Around our area a lot of people run the Pit Bull Growlers in C1 (4.19 od) which are 1.55 but we/they run them on 1.9s mainly because everybody has 1.9s. That don’t look dumb to me and I’m old school, grew up around 36” plus tires on 15” wheels."thumbsup"