
AKA EVO 1/8th Off Road Buggy Wheels (4) (Yellow)
About this part
Mark and Gil were able to reach this goal by first changing the face of the wheel from convex to concave. This design change helps the EVO wheel deal with the ever increasing G-loads of a modern 1/8 buggy without distortion of the face of the wheel. Next they were able to kill two birds with one stone by developing an optional internal dish which serves two purposes. The first and most important purpose is to further stiffen the wheel and especially help the inner most bead of the wheel hold it's shape. The second purpose of this dish is to block dirt from being trapped within the inner ribbing of the wheel and throwing the wheel out of balance. These design innovations allowed the wheel to be stiffer without going to stiffer and therefore more brittle plastic or increasing wall thickness which gives up clearance and adds weight at the outer edge of the wheel.
The advantage of the stiffer EVO wheel shows up immediately on rough tracks, high bite tracks, tracks with large jumps and tracks with high speed sections. The EVO wheel is still made from the super durable AKA nylon that current AKA customers are used to. The inner wheel stiffeners are available separately in sets of four in both white and yellow and are removable and transferable from set to set. The EVO wheel can be used without the inner stiffener, but we know once you use the stiffeners, you won't want to go back.
NOTE: AKA EVO wheels do NOT include the internal stiffening dish (AKA34003). These must be purchased separately.
Reviews5.0 · 3 reviews
I really like AKA! to me, there are as good as pro-line but $5 cheaper... I have had zero problems with these... My tires from PL wore out before the wheels!
Great wheels! Running two sets of 4 on my Rc8.2e with no issues. Have not tried the wheel stiffners yet.
Awesome wheels! don't flex or bend very much and the option enforcement rings makes them even better, buggy jumps way more consistent. also the out side of the rim is slightly angled in towards the hex preventing scratches.
All three reviewers rate these yellow AKA EVO 1/8th off-road buggy wheels 5 out of 5 and report no problems. One compares them favourably to Pro-Line wheels at a lower price, noting they outlasted the tyres. Another runs two sets on an RC8.2e without issues but has not yet tried the wheel stiffeners. A third says the wheels resist flexing and bending, that the optional enforcement rings make jumps more consistent, and that the angled outer rim edge helps prevent scratches. The reviews are few and short, and none describe long-term durability in detail.
- + Resists flexing and bending
- + Good value compared with Pro-Line
- + No problems reported
- + Consistent jumps with enforcement rings
- − Few reviews available
- − Long-term durability not described