Yes, they will fit. The tire will have more of a square look to them as well as a possible slightly shorter sidewall. The insert will also then not necessarily fully support the contact patch of the tire.

24 & 26mm
http://www.rctech.net/forum/attachme...sc_0024-2-.jpg

Yes it hardly makes any difference in the profile of the tire . I just mounted a set on some silver jaco wheels my self ..
I baked them @400deg for 15min lol glad I'm single I would be in hot water ...

I pulled out the caliper to make some comparisons and used the following speed calculator with the only variable being the tire diameter to get the following results for estimated top speed with each combination:

http://scriptasylum.com/rc_speed/top_speed.html

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5541/1...dfd32390_o.jpg

Although the RIDE spec tires do fit rather clean on the 26mm wheels with 6mm offset, there is clearly a disadvantage in doing so by losing roughly 0.34 mph, and the difference in speed 2.15 mph lost simply by changing over to the new spec tires, I definitely saw this first hand when racing other drivers running the HPI tires at my local track. I have not tried to alter my gearing to accommodate the smaller diameter tire, so I guess it's entirely possible to make up the difference there maybe?

*** EDIT ***
using the calculator, I had to drop 7 teeth on the 64P spur to get the same speed with the Tamiya tire as the RIDE on 26mm wheel.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3805/1...779fa99c_c.jpg

*** EDIT ***
the more I study the difference between the RIDE spec on 24mm wheel vs 26mm wheel, I'm starting to think maybe that the 26mm might do better overall. The tire on the 26mm wheel is far more flat across the width providing more contact patch and will undoubtedly be less susceptible to ballooning which may provide better traction in corners... however the 24mm wheel feels softer which in turn might make it better. Perhaps it can all boil down to 24mm wheels doing better on carpet with 26mm wheels doing better on asphalt... who knows?

Also recheck your ride height when changing over to the RIDE tires as the whole geometry changes with the car being significantly lower to the ground. There is 0.8mm difference just from swapping between RIDE spec tires on 24mm vs 26mm wheels!

Yes, change the gears to maintain the same roll out.

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...026_180420.jpg
This is me making a 24mm rim . worked great and is strong . still flexible also

That's awesome.

I will rephrase my question can i legally run 26 mm rims because our lhs and race track is saying that these rims are gonna be speck rims?

Yes only the Ride tire with the supplied insert are spec'd you can use any 24 or 26mm non dish wheel. The light weight Ride rims are going to be hard to beat for all out performance just based on weight alone but we understand that guys still want looks or offset.

I haven't been in the race scene since april. I'm now trying to get back to the track, but it seems a few things have changed. I like the look of the new Camaro body. How does its handling compare to the RX8, which is what I ran before?

I run a T3'10, what offset wheels will work best using the Camaro body with the new spec tire?

I was running a d3.5, but understand now its not legal. What is a few of the popular motors that people are having good luck out of? BTW I run a SP Revention ESC.

JLFX CAR AUDIO, is Thunder requiring the new tire yet? Whats my choices there now for club races?

Just my opinion; each track is going to handle the motor thing individually would be my thought. The Southern Nats, made the call to allow any mfg that had a ROAR legal 17.5, their 21.5 would also be legal (however excluded the D3.5 and any mfg's motor labeled as "outlaw"). So each track may vary.

Quite a few mfg's never submitted them to ROAR due to the fact ROAR does not have any 21.5 classes, but built them using ROAR spec's

Alloy slash . thunder is the only track that I know of that's keeping all D3.5 off the track during big events or point series races. Also these events will also be the only ones that will require treaded tires . I don't seen them going to the speck tire this winter . tho I have already got 3 sets to test

So that explains why my usgt 21.5 is much faster top end vs my spoke wheel slicks 24mm. I'm geared at 3.20 fdr and when I put the hpis the car about half way mid straight sounds like it goes in boost which isn't boosted. I am keeping up with 17.5's when we drag race them I wanna say they put a foot gap off the line amd it stays that way, when it comes to the infield they aren't all that great until they warm up

according to my scales, the difference in weight between the spec 24mm wheel and my HPI 26mm wheel is 1.1 grams:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3786/1...ce8384e1_c.jpg

Thats awesome and crazy at the same time, hope this is not the only option to get offset wheels for a class where most use 200mm bodies on 190mm chassis.