New ZX5 ??????

[Funkymojo]

Originally Posted by pro4nut

I would warn that if you put o rings in each end of the shaft you 'may' remove to much of the end float and this in itself will cause bevel gears to strip.

Gears like the lunch box..... really

Doesn't carry on the Lazer heritage....

This is my last post in this thread but if any of you can make it to one of the mid south chilterns regionals this year i will happpily let you look at my own cars as i don't seem to have these problems.

Well glad your ZX5 is working for you, to each his own i guess.. i was looking at my ZXS and a mate's ZX5...great difference in quality. Well when kyosho was disigning the ZX5 buggy, they went with belt design only to switch to shaft drive at the last minute, i guess they were just trying to follow the shaft drive trend at that time. Guess they figured that ultmately the saddle pack design is still the best after looking at buggies from Yokomo, Tamiya, TTech, JConcepts...hmmm wonder why Adachi has been driving a belt drive 4wd Kyosho buggy recently...

[Twister]

I really like Kyoshos aproach to the hobby, earlier the optima mids and lazers had a simple layout and easy to maintain. Shaft isn't a bad idea with all the horsepower we can strap in the cars now. But if there is a beltdrive version coming out after the world's i am the first in line. Really good news about the tf stallion prototype. Good racing gent's

[Bastos]

Hello


In 2003, at TAMPA Florida, the Japanese team have testing some version of the ZX5...
I've taking shot of this one :


And this is the transmission :


It was just tests...

[Twister]

Looks fine! I hope they haven't given up on belts.. But they probably release a off-road version of the tf-5 stallion after the world's. Thats my prediction.

[Dirt-Racer]

I was so looking forward to that Belt driven version of the ZX5, lets see if the predictions are correct

[Funkymojo]

Originally Posted by Bastos

Hello


In 2003, at TAMPA Florida, the Japanese team have testing some version of the ZX5...
I've taking shot of this one :


And this is the transmission :


It was just tests...

Yes i remembered Kyosho did some test with this buggy..but the direct drive train had limited gear ratios. When installed a low turn mod motor...the drive train couldnt take the power and stress..hence the idea for this car was canned..but it looks really nice

[Dirt-Racer]

Perhaps if they gave the problem a thorough workover they could solve that the hurdle and maybe incorporate a single belt system instead and those ZXR wishbones have gotta go, they weigh some.

[Funkymojo]

Originally Posted by Dirt-Racer

Perhaps if they gave the problem a thorough workover they could solve that the hurdle and maybe incorporate a single belt system instead and those ZXR wishbones have gotta go, they weigh some.

Yeah a single belt design would be nice, but looking at all the recent Japanese made buggy...i've got a gut feeling it's gonna look like a Yok BX and the Tamiya TRF 501x...

[Twister]

Originally Posted by Funkymojo

Yeah a single belt design would be nice, but looking at all the recent Japanese made buggy...i've got a gut feeling it's gonna look like a Yok BX and the Tamiya TRF 501x...

Yup you are probably correct, it seems like converting touringcars is a shortcut for all makers these days.. So a 501X copy is no bad call. But it will grind some teeth among us hardcore fans

[Welshy40]

Guys i find this is the design everyone else wanted to make, i mean tamiya, yokomo and the rest have all copied ideas from it such as the plastic clear gearbox casings, open gearboxes, and a couple of other items in there as well. It is a Lazer ZXS and still the best design made by Kyosho, and the one in the picture is the rarest of them all, a team car.

[syxxstring]

if they go back to the belt they should revive the Optima name. It was sooo much kewler than Lazer. Optima Mid Carbon Pro Se RB or something incorporate all the old kyosho naming conventions.