The green mobile

[simonrhart]

Just sprayed my new Kyosho body. I think you'll need sunglasses while looking at it!

[racingdwarf]

mother of green, thats, well GREEN, must have taken some masking

but in truth solid bright paint works best!

You shall now be called the HULK on track

[Leedsey]

Looking good simon.
Let us know how you get on.
Andrew

[simonrhart]

Thanks Andrew.

Well I raced it at Coastal on Sunday. With awesome help from Carl and Simon thank you to the both of them. We were able to set it up correctly. Now it is a flying machine - OMFG, it sticks to the track like glue!

My first 3 races were not great, grip rolling, turning in too much etc etc. Fastest time was 11 laps (which was equal to my best time with my Losi 2wd). Then by the final, 4th race it was like driving a different car. Almost got 13 laps like another 2 seconds and I'd would of had 13. Most of the top drivers are getting 13 laps (not that I am a top driver, shows how good the car can be ). I was getting 23 second laps with it. That is 1 second off the pace. What an awesome car.

Sadly, on the second final, I was getting a clicking, and it got louder and louder. Turns out the rear drive train is toast due to the instruction manual incorrectly specifying the number of shims needed for the rear diff. I guess the manual does not work on high grip surfaces. So new gears are on order!

Finished with trusty old Losi - never fails me and won the C with it after a bad start.

Simon

[racingdwarf]

shimming the diff, the dark art of back lash, it's something you have to get the hang of because it's not a set in stone for every car, thus why the manual can seem a little sketchy, you need to get a feel for it, and it will need to be kept an eye on as back lash will change as the car is run in after 1st build, then again if you have to replace the pinion or main gear. astro is the devil to shaft drive and the power we can put to them,also the size of the jumps the landing can be very hard on the drive train! a little slipper adjustment can help protect the drive train, but even then I have stripped a set of gears at three regionals this year the main spares I car for the ZX5 are front shock towers and gearbox housings and at least 2x sets of diff gears it's not just kyosho, the xray can be very susceptible to gears stripping to. But in my opinion it's one of the biggest challenges to 10th 4wd cars now belt or shaft the shear amount of power we are trying to put through the transmission on high grip like astro.

[simonrhart]

You're right, the sheer amount of power we put through these cars is quite staggering. The track at Costal is full power, brakes, full power, brakes. So it takes it's toll on the transmission like you say. Not many jumps though.

I first started hearing a clicking after braking really hard at the end of the straight prior to the transmission becoming completely knackered.

Why do you stock the transmission housing?

The new Losi 4WD might be worth considering when released this year.

Dave how do you adjust the slipper without taking the top deck off, small spanner? The spanner supplied in the kit is not easy to use.