Interesting. I haven't kept up with the bleeding edge of tire compounds and unless this is like a BSR silver I haven't heard of these. Last time I ran mod on carpet it was Blue/Green rears and magenta fronts

I believe silver is a 35 shore Japan "Foam" compound. It is supposed to be the sameas the Ulti X med. Similar to BSR Blue, but not quite the same.

There are several Japanese brands that are quite popular over here.
Peacemaker GX 35, Tire Factory, Team Bomber are the go to tires.

Peacemaker

http://www.kimihiko-yano.jp/Product/...n_kate=3-18-20

Tire Factory

http://mikuni-factory.main.jp/?cat=

Team Bomber

http://www.teambomber.jp/new.15.7.15.html

What speedo were you running? An extra / bigger / more numerous cap may help the temps.

LRP Flow Team with the stock LRP power cap (barrel). No fan either.

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As grip increased I found a fan almost necessary on many esc's in mod 12th with a 3.5.

I'll have to hook up a WTF fan up then.

I spoke with the owner of Team Bomber and he said this about the foam tires.

Silver is a Bomber original compound and it is different from JFT.
The shore hardness of silver is about 35 degrees.

I am sorry if I implied they were the same as JFT. JFT C compound blue (35) is different than all the others, however the Team bomber silver are foam and not rubber based tires, which is what I was referring to. I have a list of the tires and their equivalencies that are available in Japan, that I got from my friend Konosuke (I can't find the list right now, but I'll update whenever I can). The majority of sponge tires come from 2 sources in Japan, Tabata, and Kotobuki Giken, which is a subsidiary of Tabata. Kotobuki tires though, tend to be different from my understanding. Ulti and Kimihiko tires for example, come from Kotobuki and tend to be better because they are "matched" better by shore.

No offence taken, Cristian. To be honest, I wasn't even remotely offended. All information and different points of views are always welcomed.

Yes, you are right the TB Silver are foam based. I'm pretty sure they are all foam based. When ever I do heavy cuts into the foam, no smoke appears. Smoking only appears when I cut Yokomo CRT medium, which looks and smells rubbery

Thanks again for pointing out the different sponge tire sources.

Love this thread and it's wealth of information.

What is a GX35?

The GX no idea, 35 is the shore. I'll get back to you on the meaning of GX.

I don't think GX means much, they got A-compound then came up with Q and G. GX is newer version of G, and CRC won WC with. They are releasing latest version of GX35 next month I heard.

Anyone have experience with the savox 1257tg mini servo? Looking at my options and have had awesome luck in my offroad cars with savox and would like to stick with them. If there are better options though please let me know! Money isn't really a deciding factor.

EDIT: I did some more reading, are the Futaba servos that much better? I'm not really a fan of plastic gears.

I run my car with the battery transverse and to the rear, backed up against the rear pivot, and for the most part the car works great like this, but when I run on extremely high grip at a big event my car tends to lift the inside rear tire. Do you think that running the battery inline or forward would help with this? Should I find some way to lower the rear roll center? Just set up the car in such a way that the rear doesn't generate enough grip to roll over?