My Kyosho Debut
 

Hi Guys

So I ran for Kyosho at the Petit RC race this weekend just gone and I thought I'd share my experiences with you. I hadn't run either of my cars before the meeting, which can be confirmed by anyone who saw me frantically trying to finish building them in time for practice each morning!

2wd: RB5 SP - I ran my car pretty close to stock but using one of tebo's set ups, with slightly firmer springs. I also added 40g of lead to the top of the servo, plus 20g under the ackermann link. From the off it had a good balance and jumped well with no major handling quirks to worry about. I had a bit of an issue with the back end squatting to the side when accelerating out of the slow carpeted corners but moving the shocks to the outside on the rear tower sorted that out.

I was lucky to make the A final after a spin in the crucial 4th round of qualifying after trying to catch too much of the downslope on the tabletop, with times so tight that dropped me several places and I missed BQ by just 0.14sec! Sorry Matt B!

The first two legs of the final went really well and I ran my fastest time of the day in Rd 1 to finish second to Joern. I got 4th in leg 2, but had a poor leg 3 which put me 4th overall tied on points with Shin who beat me on countback for the last podium spot. I think my tactical decision to use one set of tyres all day to help on the slippy sections backfired when the spikes finally rubbed off in leg 3.

In hindsight my car was a bit lazy in the hard turn in sections and in the switchbacks. If I was to try again I 'd soften the shocks up a lot to try a generate a bit more cornerspeed. I only needed a tenth or so to be right up at the sharp end so it's a promising start!

4wd: ZX5 FS - Again running the car close to stock I struggled initially with a technical problem. I'd not built the front driveshaft/slipper assembly correctly meaning the shaft was popping out intermitantly, making the car 2wd, not good, but totally to be expected if you don't practise! A quick rebuild to include the correct spacer and all was well. Practise and Rd1 were lost to this problem. Rd 2,3 and 4 were all good, with lots of speed in Rd3 in particular. I was tweaking the camber links and shock positions all day long to try and generate the corner speed I needed but not quite getting there. The big breakthrough came when I softened the car up going from 3-b pistons to 3-a all round. The car really came alive then.

The finals didn't go perfectly to plan, leg 1 was strong with a 4th but the next 2 legs were spoilt by an error early on which I couldn't recover from.



All in all a really promising start for the cars and with a bit more setup time to come, it's all looking peachy!

Rich C

Rich, you are the king at getting it in the back of the A! :thumbsup: :woot:

practise makes perfect god luck mate:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Well done Mr Cree :-) Cars look pretty cool in the pics too, does this mean you're doing a bit more 10th now or is it just going to be the odd appearance?

I have to say from watching the top K drivers with the FS the car has had a promising start.. i think alot of people will have seen there potential who were watching yesterday.. The FS IS up there with the best of them and WILL be in a National A final this year :thumbsup:

Rich your car (:p) look dialled mate.. your slipper mod seemed to help the car alot ;) Nice to meet you by the way :)

Shins car looked very good also.. completely different driving style though so his set up was different..

I'll be emailing the set up sheets i did for Arno who will upload to Petit..

http://www.petitrc.com/setup/kyosho/...azerZX5FS.html

http://www.petitrc.com/setup/kyosho/...UltimaRB5.html

Cheers

Nick

Hey Richard, great job at the Weekend, i drive the Kyosho cars since 2 Years. They are graet.

I hope we see us at the EURO´s in Vienna.

Greets Kim

hey nick i like the bit that i have highlighted in your post.:thumbsup:that i did look dialled, but i hadn't noticed lol:woot: didn't no i belong to rich, rich can you confirm or deny

I dont know what your talking about! :woot: lol!

Cocker Senior is going to the " k " car :thumbsup:

lol he told me i knew he would

Awesome having you back Rich - and nice to see Kyosho with some big name drivers :thumbsup:

Carl, I'm happy to say I don't own you!

Cheers Jimmy, good to be back. Shoulda done an interview!

lazer
 

so youve finally seen the light chris and your getting a lazer by the way je spares stock all the parts now and hop ups to so the bits are mega easy to get now aswell:thumbsup:

good job bubby;)

Good call :bored: oops! never enough time! Don't suppose you're racing at the indoor thing at worksop are you?

Careful Rich, he'll just make one up, it's happened before (allegedly) :D:D

G

Cheers bubby, better luck next time dude

jimmy whats that crap about me watching the wrong car??
borrowed a car but the battery was flat and they did not put my pt in, doh, I did about 3/4 laps and then the car stopped, :(

Well Rich if you do make sure you're using your old cells and motors because anything nano will send you will not be legal for this event.

It was nice meeting you for the first time pal, and hopefully will see more of you soon (not more of your body though I can live without seeing THAT!)

lol cheers rich love you too lol:woot:
you did look good with your new wheels mate,:thumbsup:

Very interesting to see the Kyoshos performing as well as anything else at the weekend. Indeed, there was nothing between any of the cars really, all down to the driver, great racing.

(My own RB5 went fine, just couldn't drive it.)

I just checked out the JESpares site and they only have a front shock tower for the ZX5?

Generally I've been struggling to find UK parts (with online ordering and stock levels), where should I be looking?