Originally Posted by
Matt Trimmings
I took it as he was referring to 4wd front tires instead of 2wd front tires. Yes the 4wd wheel will narrow the track. Do you happen to have a 4wd and a 2wd wheel handy? The 4wd wheel should be slightly wider and if you mount a 2wd tire on it will stretch it slightly.
Hideeho
I do not have any unmounted b44 wheels, so I'm going to be off a fuzz on those measurements
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The b4 wheel I measured has a width of 25.1mm. the b44 wheel I measured has a width of 26.5mm. Even taking into account squeezing the tire & glue over the lip, the b44 wheel is at least 1mm wider. I stand corrected.
For some extra credit
, I looked up the actual ROAR 1/10 buggy rules. First thing that jumped out at me was the rules for 2wd & 4wd are exactly the same except for minimum weight (1499gr for 2wd & 1613gr for 4wd)! That includes tires & wheels. The rules also make no distinction between front wheels & rear wheels. Per the rules, there is no reason you can't run the same wheel & tire front & rear
! I'm not saying you should, just that you can. So, assuming you still make maximum width, there is no reason you can't pull the front wheels off your b44 & mount them on your b4 without changing the tires, & vice versa.
I tried mounting a b44 front on the front of my b4. There were some clearance issues just before full throw on the steering. If you really wanted to, you could do some clearancing & make it work. Just for gits & shiggles
, I tried some rears on the font of the b4. That would take some MAJOR clearancing, possibly a redesign to get it to work.
p.s. If you want to read it for yourself, here's the rules, page 49 for 1/10 scale:
http://www.roarracing.com/downloads/..._Rule_Book.pdf