Originally Posted by
mdwaeracer
Hi, a quick question. I'm new to 1/12th scale and would like to know the tricks to foam tires? How do you prep them for race? I've heard of supper gluing the edges to help kep from chunking tires is this true?
Sorry if it has been asked b4. Don't feel like reading thousands of posts
What I like to do is the day before put a light coat of traction compound (Paragon FXII) and put the tires in a zip lock bag then massage the compound into the tires.
Then on race day just coat like normal for the qualifiers then for the mains put lots on and let it sit for as long as possible. then just before the race take the ziplock bag you brought it in and put the dirty side over the tires and massage the compound into the tires again.
That is for our track as we have low to mid traction and we are always fighting to keep the cars from spinning out.
I also use the softest compound available (White rears and Double pink fronts)