Ep. 92: Fun with Traction Compound (Quick Tip)
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- Foam tires are a little different than rubber tires. They need a little regular attention to keep from drying out and loosing their grip.
This Quick Tip shows how I apply Traction compound on 2WD & 4WD cars. But be careful not to use too much for on-road use, though.
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When I raced carpet cars years ago, that's all we used. A bottle of paragon was a must. You coated your tires, them on the carpet, and held the car back to heat up the paragon. When your doing 50mph on an small oval carpet track, it is a must. Nothing wrong with using it for traction.
Thanks for the comment!
I have some VHT track bite from my street racing days. was wondering about using it, but was concerned it would pick up to much road debris.
2cwik4u104 It's worked well for me. I'm not sure how much Lamont BASHERS UNITED liked it, though. He didn't seem that happy with it in his last LD3 run video.
but I also don't run foams anymore.
2cwik4u104 I have some of that too. I haven't tried it but I think it would probably work better the Paragon stuff. The VHT is an adhesion compound if I'm not mistaken. It makes all the things sticky, the track, the tires, your hands lol... I was using paragon fx II like you have in the vid rhouse. @2cwik4u104 Isn't VHT for the surface more than it is for the tires? I was going to throw some down over the dusty areas at my run spot to improve traction.
if you have VHT track bite, its for tires. used one of two ways, pour some on the track and do a burnout on it ( imagine that will be real messy with rc's) or paint it on your tires and let it sit over night. just not sure how it will work on rc's. would pick up a lot of rocks and pebbles on my real car.
The two cars that i am running grps on is a slash 4x4 and a two wheel drive rustler the slash is running the s7 and the is running s4 compound.
Both of those GRP compounds are proven at over 100 mph, but the s7s are pretty hard. They are actually meant for running on really hot surfaces, so they may not bite really well when it's cooler outside. That said, a little traction compound might increase their "stickiness", but adding more weight to the car may be your most effective way to get more grip.
Good luck!
@@RCPhysics thank you sir im going to go to the hobbyshop and pickup bottle of that traction compound plus some more weights too once again thanx sir.
Right now i only have 13oz of weight on the front of my rustler would i need to add some weight towards the rear by it being a rear wheel drive car would that help more?
I grabbed some almost the same stuff, it stinks like crazy, i was thinking the same thing about the kids, I havnt used it yet, does the smell go away after a while?
tony smith The smell doesn't last that long. and once the tires are "dry" you don't smell them at all any more, but it leaves the tires feeling like normal medium/soft tires and the effect seemed to last a while.
I'm beginning to think of this stuff as Armor All for foam tires. You don't use it every day and you know immediately when you need to reapply.
Ok thanks bro.
Where did you pick up that front wing?
It's actually an E-Revo wing that I made a custom mount for.
It's actually an E-Revo wing that I made a custom mount for.
what wheels are those..on rear
This car has low Profile Jaco Foam tires on all four corners.
paragon is great,,,
I think it's great stuff. Seems to do the trick!
My local track banned that because of the smell and the owner made a mix up of transmission fluid and something else but I made his mix better with transmission fluid tiki torch fuel and a few drips of nitro fuel works great on carpet
It sounds "slightly" flammable. LOL!
Enjoy your videos but you should really turn down the background music, its hard to understand what you are saying
Thanks for the feedback. I've adjusted the mix since these earlier videos, so I hope you like the audio quality of the newer ones better. I should be transitioning to new editing software in a few months, so I hope to take the production value up a notch soon.
use wd-40 much cheaper and better to same resaults...
I've since learned that. :-P
Depends on the track. I used wd40 as a substitute for commercial tire additive on a carpet track. my car was all over the place with 0 traction. I then cleaned and scuffed my tires, put some LRP carpet additive and my car ran quite well with the same tires.
Is wd40 good for the street on foams
Obryan Myers as much as i know for the street anything that makes your tires sticky should work better "try wd40 and see"
Obryan Myers keep in mind some tracks dont let you use any tire "enhancements"