Tires and rims. Inner diameter.

[Minimeman]

The inner diameter looks bigger on the inside of tire than it does on the outside. 2.2 outside, 2.8 inside????

[RustlerRacer16]

That looks to be the case which means aftermarket companies will have to make wheels that can clear the huge Revo axle carriers.

[BIG L]

Minimeman
The inner diameter is much larger to accommodate the Axle Carrier. The outside profile needed to stay the same for the "Look" to work. It's really very clever!

BIG L

[Revoroller13]

It will take some of the scale look away but you always get some nova axle extenders and then you can have a wider selection of wheels. But it may look ugly...

[BL-Bob]

Well I guess Noobs can't mount them wrong also.

[necron]

I guess that eliminates a lot of aftermarket parts that are already out there....:(

[Racer Rob]

Yeah its interesting how they decided to stay with the Revo carriers. Can you say overkill?! But thats probably a good thing, as I bet the truck is going to be very durable like the Slash is.

[Cynix]

Ya I am glad they did it might take after market companies a bit longer to get rims but they will.

[Slyp Dawg]

they could have gotten away with using a smaller carrier, without a doubt. I do sort of wish they had tried to, because I'm not buying into the whole different inner-outer diameter rims and tires, espically when it effectively limits the rim selection to one rim, at least for now.

[1fasterevo]

A 17mm traxxas hub will easily allow a wide range of current aftermarket wheels/tires to be used.. focus on the 1/2" offset rims like the velocity series from proline. The shaft is long on the traxxas 17mm hub adapter so you may need a extra set of lugs on the inside of the tire to get the proper spacing to clear the axle but the wheels hexes are a perfect fit on the traxxas lugs if you know what I mean so it will work perfectly... :)

Then you really don't have a slayer anymore to run in a "stock" class which is why these trucks will be such a huge hit iMO... if that is what you are after you should just get a erevo or revo and buy a slayer body and call it a day!

[RustlerRacer16]

It comes stock with a 14mm hex and we aren't going to use MT wheels on a Slayer...:rolleyes:

[1fasterevo]

It comes stock with a 14mm hex and we aren't going to use MT wheels on a Slayer...:rolleyes:

1/8 buggy LPR or Truggy LPR's are more what was in my head... much better track tires than the stock ones will be. I was just giving an idea on how to make it work if someone wanted too.. personally I think they should be left alone.. run in stock form.

[RustlerRacer16]

I have to agree. It's so cool already. There are only a couple things I want for mine.

[sleeper392]

traxxas isnt the first to do the large inner small outer rim thing, FG did the same with their scale 1/5th f1 nearly ten years ago.
Frankly its the best of both worlds and brillant decision on traxxas part, you get a scale looking outside without the side effect of having a huge sidewall inner and outer.
I think allot of people dont get the point of the slash/slayer its not for maximum performance but close fun racing that you dont have to have every new part to compete.
I was almost burned out on the racing thing as my results were only good as long as I was spending major coin. With these cars I can finnally say the better driver won 100%