ok the rc10t i picked up for my wife is an early version with the skinny front wheels. now i could just go with the wide fronts that are communally used today but i wanted to keep the vintage skinny front look. now look at this. i also want to be able to use a modern compound tire so the truck will be worth driving on the track. now seeing that the stock skinny front wheels are a 3 piece wheel that is suppose to work like a bead lock rim i come across another problem. the modern tires are so soft they would never stay on the rim without gluing them. now i do not want to glue than. the old skinny wheels are too hard to come by to do that.  so now i am needing skinny front wheels and tires of a modern style and compound.

me and my bright   ideas huh? am i really asking for too much? never!

i found the jconcepts site to have something that may just work for me. they make a rc10t4 to 1/8 scale buggy conversion. in this conversion you get skinny front wheels and tires. i took the chance and bought rims and tires in the hopes that the offsets would work out for me. well i have got them in and every measurement is exact. the with, diameter, backspacing, is all the same. what is different is that they are a modern looking wheel that is one piece and lets not forget how much lighter they are than the 3 piece stockers. as for the tires. other than the fact that the jconcepts skinny front tires are softer and require foam inserts unlike the original rc10t tires they appear nearly so identical they could have came from the same mold except for the lettering on the sidewalls.

well here are the pics so you can see for yourself.