bit smalls on a zip?

ziprc · Post by **ziprc** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 11:28 pm

i was thinking about it, most of the times when you lower a car it's a pain in the arse to shave the inside and what not. i was thinking, what if you take bit small fronts on the rear axles and use bit smalls on the front and back of a zip? it would have no jamming or need for shaving, and u could lower even more!

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 9:12 am

and your car will be slow and get no traction. why not just lower a hotwheels car?

bdebde · Post by **bdebde** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 6:41 pm

hogjowlz wrote:and your car will be slow and get no traction. why not just lower a hotwheels car?

I beg to differ. I have a Zip Zap with all small bit wheels on it, it handles like it is on rails! It has red Zip Zap gears, clone tires, Mosfet modded pcb and purple zip zap motor and the tabs are lowered. In a drag race against a bit with normal size (clone) tires, orange gears, mosfet mod and perfection 4.2, it is dead even for the entire quarter mile (20 ft.)!

Also, my 69 Camaro rs convertible Zip Zap has all small wheels and tires on it as well. It is even faster than this one, with mosfet booster board, perfection 4.2 and red gears. It doesn't handle quite as well because it does not have the good tires on it (yet, just got them the other day).

http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpFo ... php?t=1599

All I can say is "just do it", the look is more to scale for sure!

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:05 pm

I'm gonna agree with Bdebde on this one. I put small wheels on my stretched chassis Explorer, and it handles as bdebde described, like it's on rails.

I believe smaller wheels improve handling because they lower the center of gravity.

They willl lower your rollout ratio (the gear ratio at the point where the tires hit the ground), and you'll have to run higher gear ratios to get the same top speed, so Hog's right about that, and I guess I'm just agreeing with everyone today.

Micro s2000 · Post by **Micro s2000** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 2:09 am

if you used green gears and small wheels in the back would you get close to the same effect as using orange gears and reg back wheels?

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 2:30 am

no. little wheels with the green gear would climb like crazy but wouldnt top out very high.

cowfish_29 · Post by **cowfish_29** » Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:28 pm

i did it, ya mighta seen it somewhere, I don't like it much so i took it apart. I'm spoiled with using the treaded zip tires, they are more consistant on slick surfaces. I have just been using stock wheels lately.

down a little: http://www.tinyrc.com/forums/showthread ... adid=13239

ssi · Post by **ssi** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 4:43 pm

thanks cowfish i have the same evo shell and i have been wondering how to get it down that little bit more, so i decided to tab mod but i was daing it all wrong now i see yours

thanks

HirotoR34 · Post by **HirotoR34** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:03 pm

The one thing that I have done to all my lowered bits is taking a dremel with a small grinding tip and shaving the plastic off the inner fender. It gives me more wheel clearance even with bigger wheels.
I also noticed that it works especially well with the GT-R, WRX bodies because of the increased flaring of the fenders.