Hello,
This guide will be instructing you how to 'belt' your tires.
Belting your tires includes adding a strip of "Gorilla tape" or fiberglass tape to the inside of your tire to stop it from ballooning when used with high powered RC's such as 1/8 brushless systems.
You want to stop the tire ballooning for several reasons, the first is that when your tire balloons, it has very little surface area with the ground causing handling to be very poor and wearing your tires unevenly . Another reason is that if your tire balloons a lot, it can tear the tire all together!
Things you will need:
Gorrila tape or fibre glass tape
scissors
sand paper
advised: surface wipe or soap
Step 1
on order to make the Gorilla tape adhere best to the tire it advised to turn the tire inside out and sand it down slightly. Its then advised to clean down the surface thoroughly either with a suface wipe or just throughly with water and a bit of dish soap
the end result should look like this
Step 2
the next step is to simply wrap the central part of the tire with the Gorrilla or fibre glass tape. It is not necessary to wrap the whole tire twice round although it is advised to leave a slight overlap to help ensure the tape does not come undone
And there you have it, fully belted tires ready to be bashed or raced!
Hope this guide was of any help