Originally Posted by
iTz Nicholas72
The Protoform tires take a long time to break in. Had a newcomer run his XQ1S for the first time on brand new Protoform tires that were only lightly scuffed in to remove seam. Drift city. Put my broken in tires and it was substantially better.
Maybe see if a local has a set of known good/broken-in tires you could try to see if it's setup or tires.
How many laps does it take to break those tires in? I would say the biggest difference I felt in the steering is setting the toe to 0, and also adding shims to the ackerman bar. You put shims under the ball stud in the steering turn buckle end that screws into the ackerman bar. That causes more toe out on turns and gives you a ton more steering. But if the tires just needs to be broken in, wait for the tires to break in because the car will drive totally difference once it does. As what most people say, you can have the most setup car, but with shitty tires, it will still drive like garbage.