Yeah the tire pattern and size are more of a kind you will see on a street legal car, so the performance are not quite up there with a more dedicated offroad tire.
but down in 1:10 scale things scale down and work the same way, sure my shocks are the fully adjustable piggy back kind with a lot of adjustment options.
And that's also the first thing i will have to try, put in another piston inside the shocks and put in a thicker oil, this is one of my less costly options as i have the parts for the shocks and if my own oil are not to my liking i know my friend have a lot of it too.
Another thing i have been considering is altering the shock angle so they are more upright, as they now are angler in under the car and more or less mounted in the middle between the 2 frame rails.
I have a sneaky feeling though i only changed that angle ever so little with the new body, it have been enough for the 4 link system to easier compress the shocks, and so if i could get a more true upright angle on the shocks they should be harder for the undercarriage to compress.
Problem is i would then have to change to shorter shocks, and i might have to cut into the bottom / side of the bed ( this i can hide with scale items like coolers, beer kegs or Jerry cans hiding the shocks and the cuts i made.
I have also contemplated putting on the leaf springs again, the trailfinder 2 actually come with those, i just switched them out with 4 link in the rear and a 3 link with panhard bar in the front.
Problem then are the original shocks are just there for show, there are no shock absorbing properties to them what so ever.
I could then put shooter shackles on the springs if i wanted to.
Another option are to hit up my Willy's Jeep project, i more or less have all i need for it, in my old Axial honcho, so just a case of whipping things together.
This is basically putting a RC car under a GI Joe toy jeep.
This make up for a larger off roader 1:8 or something, will have to add 25 mm spacers to space out the wheels on the axle.
Similar to the Willy's project i have a even larger one,, that's based on a 1:5 scale Hummer body ( army version )
I sort of also have all the parts for that build, but that will take a lot more tinkering as the Hummer as you know are a IHS car, and i have IHS axels and all ready to go, but still building everything up under that large Hummer body will take a long time.
This is a picture of the hummer body put on top of my 1:10 scale Axial Honcho that's in itself a long wheelbase scale truck, but here it is dwarfed by the hummer body.
Also got wheels and tires for that project