And it’s about time hahaha… Anyway, I feel like making a blog post so it’s a good time to do one. And today it’s about my Tamiya DT02 Sand Viper. At first it looked like it did in this post. But I’ve given it a nice new set of off-road rear wheels. Nice and big. The rims themselves are about the same diameter as the stock rims, they’re just a bit wider. But the tires are a lot bigger and have a very good profile. This gives the Sand Viper great traction on grass fields. I haven’t yet tested it with these wheels in the dirt, but I reckon it’s performance will be superior to the stock setup.
The first and second image show the entire car with it’s new rear wheels and the third image shows a comparison of the new wheels with the old ones. Even though the old ones in the picture aren’t the stock rims, they are the same size as the stock rims and have the same tires, but not worn down that as much as the stock tires.
The engine that is visibible in the second picture isn’t the stock engine. I got this one from my friend Frank, but I had to take it out again and replace it with the stock engine. The speed controller was overheating with this engine and these wheels on it and it runs great with it’s stock engine, so I put that back in and with these wheels it’s even faster with then with non-stock engine. Anyway, it runs good now.
