Speedline Reviews

Oospeed and Speedline were gracious enough to allow us to test some tyres and wheels. 

I already have a few sets of Speedline rims and Tyres, so it was no big deal matching a set for testing.

So far we tried the Rear Wheel Drive CR-1 and CR-2 at GCRC Raceway with 3 independent drivers and chassis.

The CR-1 is the "harder" Medium tyre. It has very very consistent behavior. These will be great to match CS cars. 

It also has a built in rev limiter. If you slowly get on the throttle you get grip and forward motion. Bury the throttle and you don't go anywhere off the line. But once up and running, these tyres are awesome.

The CG-2 is your typical "Medium" Medium-Soft tyre that degrades quickly and although gives a lot of grip also ended up being simply too fast for our use.

Immediate front end understeer with regular front tyres and only short drifts as grip was reached. Definitely one for the faster tracks out there.

We also compared these against Yokomo Zero-One R4 which fell in between the two Speedline compounds
Against the MST CS-R Red benchmarks they performed well with CR-1 having a much longer clean tyre feel as they don't pick up surface dust into the compound.

Se we were very pleased with the outcome. Final decision to come for control tyre selection. 

The Gemini is one body I don't mind running 20mm front tyres. They look better than the fats. 

10 Spoke rims in +8 offset. I'm ready for my next front tyre test. CR-1 Rear tyre and CG-1 20mm RWD on the front and a narrower chassis.

the CG-1 are a hard compound that should match the CR-1 perfectly.

Ready to hammer.

RE-Xtreme Drift Package Weight Shift Master
Accuvance Airia and Luxon Kg 21.5T + Turbo Sanwa M12s + BLX + SGS-01D

I'll be sharing some RWD setups over the next month with weight balance measurements and wheelspeed targets

MST Deeps

Running addiction aero brings it's own challenges when it comes to Rim selection... Here is a pretty easy modification to MST Mesh Rims for great stance.

The MST Mesh rims come with 4 depths. 3.5.7.9.mm but there's another 5 on offer.

 I added a small notch right on the rim limit. this allows at least the slightest of bite for the location tabs.

I added 3 of these on the rims I am using for the rear.

Some Super Strong CA glue and your done. But you'd better get it right, because you only get one chance.

So I now have 2x +9 Offset and 2x +14 Offset.There is a slight drawback that the ridges are slightly visible from the inside... not a big issue on black, but other colours may show.

Perfect for the Addiction 86 and my RWB porsche.

MST Meshies

Let's take a look at the MST selectable offset mesh wheel.

I will call this MST wheel "Selectable" rather than Adjustable.The reason being, once your selection is made, There cannot be any further adjustment.

You select by lining up the tabs on the spoke section with the slots on the rim section. which is numbered 3,5,7,9

These must then be glued into place. So choose very very carefully. And line them up carefully too.

The back of the wheel hex is also quite shallow so there is really only room for a 1mm spacer of you get it wrong or err on the conservative side..  Note i haven't pushed the rim in all the way.

Potentially you can create 15mm offset by glueing the rim on the unslotted section, but without the slots, it would probably spin off. 

Thats a pity, because my 220 mm porsche would love that. 

It needs massive rear dish. 

The same on the rear of the 215mm 86.

Deep! haha.

But I guess you have to settle for a larger wheel hub HEX and the 9mm deepest setting 

Up front, 5mm suits this chassis, but my other chassis needs 9mm all round.

Mesh would be great for those Group 5 cars or Croup C cars of the Eighties.

So the Mesh wheels look great in Black and hyper black. if you select the right car. 

Chrome rim and gold center would replicate BBS style rims pretty well. 

Pretty cool