Kyosho ZX5 FS

[ace028]

In my parts that came with the car I notice there are white shock pistions and black. I am setting up my shocks right now to tebos setup, I dont have 37.5 oil so I am going to use 35 front and 30 rear as that is all I have at the moment. The old oil was pretty dirty so they should be much nicer once I refill them.

Anyways It has a 2-B pistion now, and I am putting the 3-B in like tebos setup but want to make sure that they are white pistons because I found black ones too but not 3-b style if that makes since lol.

[ace028]

Upon closer looking I found that they say what they are on them lol. The black ones dont though.

[RogerM]

All the pistons commonly used are on the white parts tree.

Be careful when you trim the tab that attached the piston to the parts tree, it's easy to leave a bit attached or worse nick some out of the edge as the piston material is softer than some

[ace028]

Thanks, I carefully trimmed the pistons, cleaned out the old oil and filled them. These shocks are super nice, I hate filling shocks but these just bleed so nicely!!! I wish all AE shocks were this nice!!

I have adjusted most everything to tebos setup. I just need to change the front axle height spacer and adjust the ride height


I don't know if I have the 7 deg castor block or the law36 and law37 or have the UM521 arms for the. How can I tell? I also need the #72 shock spring for the rear.



Do you guys leave the dirt shield in front of the motor on? It makes it hard to get the motor out or change pinions.


Also I bought a new body for it, a proline vortex but it dont fit. Is the FS take a different body then the reg zx-5?

[RogerM]

Originally Posted by ace028

Thanks, I carefully trimmed the pistons, cleaned out the old oil and filled them. These shocks are super nice, I hate filling shocks but these just bleed so nicely!!! I wish all AE shocks were this nice!!

I have adjusted most everything to tebos setup. I just need to change the front axle height spacer and adjust the ride height


I don't know if I have the 7 deg castor block or the law36 and law37 or have the UM521 arms for the. How can I tell? I also need the #72 shock spring for the rear.



Do you guys leave the dirt shield in front of the motor on? It makes it hard to get the motor out or change pinions.


Also I bought a new body for it, a proline vortex but it dont fit. Is the FS take a different body then the reg zx-5?

In order mate ...

The shocks are the best 1/10th off-road shocks I've ever built, fill them with oil, make sure shock shaft is fully extended, screw cartridge in till it stops, unscrew 1/2 turn then slowly push shock shaft in, hold it fully home as you tighten the cartridge fully = perfect shock every time!

The casot blocks will have been included with the original kit (they will have R7 and L7 moulded on them ... the 10deg ones are R10 & L10 as if you couldn't have guessed )

Not 100% sure but I think Tebos set-up is essentially using the stock rear hinge pin positions but using the LAW36/37 ali mounts purely for the shiney blue (and a little bit of extra strength and tuneability). Leave the wishbone hangers as stock till you can get the ali LAW36/37 parts and I'm sure the car will be fine!

I thought that Tebo used the #68 blue spring which is kit standard? #72 is a little stiffer than we normally use but then again I don't run on your sort of track surfaces.

UM521 are the RB5-SP arms, they are slightly longer than stock (LA243 is the same length arm but with an extra, more outboard, shock mounting hole). This arm will give you a little less side-bite than stock but make the car feel a fraction more stable, again something we don't normally run in the UK so it's not something I can comment on. I'd get out there and try the car with the stock arms ... can always get the extras later.

The Proline body is for the ZX5 & zx5-SP which are shorter than the ZX5-FS. If you don't want to run the very pretty stock body then a BJ4 / B44 shell fits perfectly.

Can you please post a link to the set-up your following, I don't recognise the details you have posted from any of Tebo's set-ups I've seen!

[ace028]

i'll post the setup link when I get home. I got the kit second hand so I don't have the extra springs for it. I think I do have the 7 deg caster blocks. Yeah I think I will run it as is for now, our track is quite large and I'm sure will get very bumpy once the 1/8 cars run on it so the longer arms may be good.

[ace028]

the original body is very nice though, I just don't really like pink lol.

[ace028]

Here is the setup sheet I was using.

http://www.kyoshoamerica.com/downloa...2009-07-30.pdf

[RogerM]

Body you need is LAB04

I'd not seen that set-up sheet before but it does make interesting reading, thanks.

[ace028]

Thanks.

Which lipos are you guys using that are perfect fit? The SMC 4900 pack is perfect fit right now. I was looking at
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...0mAh-Pin-Style

But I don't think it will fit without moding the chassis.

[RogerM]

Robotronic 4600 35C .. perfect fit, don't even have to trim the NiMh retaining tabs on the chassis!

Apparently this is exactly the same dimensions as the trackpower dark series so I guess they will fit too bu tnot seen any to try.

[ace028]

I wonder if these will fit?
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...ry-74V-6000mAh

My smc's are 45.75mm wide according to the advertisement. I will measure them later with my venier caliper.

[RogerM]

Guess they maybe too tall. The Robotronics only just fit under the topdeck with a 2mm lead shim below them!!!

[ace028]

Some better pics of the car.

[ace028]

Opps double post.

[kek23k]

Nice looking car you got there

[ace028]

Thanks.

[ace028]

I just ordered the trackpower dark series lipo. So I will report how it fits once I get it. Thanks.

[ace028]

Perfect fit RogerM!!! Thanks for the info. Now I need to install connector, and find what sort of harness to use for balancing.