Kyosho Lazer ZX-5 FS KIT / NON CONVERSION

[Richard_Griffiths]

All,

Recently purchased a lazer zx-5 fs in kit form and could not find a dedicated thread so i thought i would start one.


Here are a few questions to get this thread started.

1) How good i this car stright out of the box is there anything i can do to makeit better.

2) What spares do you think i need to carry.


Thanks

[migsy]

One item to carry spare would be drive shafts. they have been known to let go after a hard landing.

hope this helps.

[Fabs]

Don't agree with the driveshafts thing, I've not broken any on either cars and I've done Petit RC and Players with them, both races with HUGE jumps, no breakages.

IMHO the parts to have in your pit box are

Shock Towers F/R

Turnbuckles unless you upgrade to Ti ones

Hubs front and rear

Hinge pins cuz they sometimes bend

Suspension blocks

Maybe useful to have a set of wing mounts.

[RogerM]

I'm with Fab on this, car is built like a brick out house.

Only thing to add to the list is a set of wishbones (LA255).

Basically remember that there will be less people running the K' cars than AE / Losi / Scumy so you'll have less chance of borrowing a part.

I think your going to be racing West Mids??? If so then look me up, I've usually got a couple of cars worth of bits in my box.

As for how good is the car .... VERY. Needs a bit of work to sort the set-up out for the UK but once there it is a match for any of the others!

[Fabs]

Yes the wishbones are somethnig to have in the box, however they are VERY strong as I am yet to break one and have had my fair share of crashes, I even bent an aluminium suspension holder but the wishbone... Nothing !

[Richard_Griffiths]

Just looking though my box. I noticed the turnbuckles these dont look like the normal black steel ones.

There nice and shiny UMMMMMM are these the new TI ones?

[migsy]

my mate must have had a bad kit from the batch then.

[RogerM]

Maybe he did but I must say I've never heard anybody break a Kyosho driveshaft, other than the RTR ones, they are built to a price and motor spec and won't take much more than the kit motor on high grip surfaces like carpet.

[Richard_Griffiths]

Just building the turnbuckles and i noticed that in the manual is says to remove some of the ball cup.

I fitted the prior to removing just to see why this was the case. But i cant see the reason.

Is the realy nessasery

Cheers

Richard