i gotta say that the jaco spec lilac tires wear like steel! ran the car quite a bit today and i can hardley tell any wear whatsoever. nice to use foam tires that give real good bite and still have killer wear characteristics. the tire also stays good throughout the run. if you flip the body over after running a heat there is practically no tire shed on the bottom of the body. my 12th scale would have been covered. i ran the blackstock setup from the Ae website from the IIC. worked very well, a little too aggressive now and then, it did traction roll once or twice...but i was charging very hard into some of the hair pin corners to make it do that. i was turning faster lap times than most of the touring cars running 2s lipos!