ZX5 setup questions
 

//please can you ask your setup questions here thanks//



cheers for the set up, mines not to far off that might have to pop and see u for a bit of advice at kiddy dude.

Indoors on Carpet
 

Any definitive tips for indoors on carpet.........seems a waste indoors I know and expect to be outside with the Stotfold setup soon, but what should I adjust (I have yellow minipins in the box) for flat track with a couple of jumps.

setup questions
 

hi
please can you ask your setup questions here thanks,

CVD's!

Is it true they will square the car up under power ? do you run the cvd's all the time anyway? apart from scouring the track for the dogbone when breaking a hub is there really that much of an effect on performance with the rear cvd's ?

dont know as to squaring the car up as have never tested the 2 back to back for that situation but the car does seem smoother on the track with the cvd's so i do run them all the time

to be honest id just go with the stotfold set up as its for dry astro with jumps and you will see that the car sits very low anyway and the stotfold set up is good with bb minipins in green and yellow minis dont seem to grip any more than those so give it a go and stiffen it up with a 1.6 roll bar on the back if required

can anyone with questions as to set ups please post in the questions section so we can save this thread for just set ups. if jimmy can move the last few posts to the set up questions section and make that a sticky as well it would be awsome

cheers m8

There we go, I can't re-order yours to the top, it seems nathan, but hopefully this doesnt look too messy! :)

that will be fine jim, thanks for the help m8 ;)

@ niggs98 :

I have a race on astro in 2 weeks and I'm going to use your Stotfold setup and start from there (thanks for that).

I have a few little questions though :

• You once posted your stotfold setup in a thread here, and it mentioned yellow springs at the front. On your setup sheet in the sticky, you mention orange springs at front. :confused:
• On the setup sheet, you state you used no spring preload at the front. But this way, the front ride height is a lot less then the rear. With your setup, the car lies very low indeed. Didn't it bottom out on jumps and bumps?
• Will the setup work with Schum yellow minipins (the controll tyre over here).

hi
the front shock springs are the yellow orange number 60,
the front ride height was that low to take away some front end grip as the astro was very dry and had loads off grip,
the setup should work with yellows we used greens,
the ride height probbaly will need to be played with to tune it to your track but shouldnt be a million miles away,

Thanks mate ! :thumrigh:

I don't know if you're going to the Belgian GP this year at Kampenhout (a lot of brits come over every year), but if you're interested, I can test this setup at that track. It was changed a fair bit over the winter this year.

funnily enough nathan and myself(stu)will be coming over to the belgium gp this year,whats the tyre wear like on yellow minipins,

When it is really dry, about 3 heats per set. You can use them longer, but they loose that little edge that can make a difference. Schum yellow mini spikes work too, but I find minipins a bit more progressive and predictable there. Plus it is one of the controll tyre for our nationals.

I hope I see you at the GP. By the time I wanted to inscibe in january, it was already fully booked so I won't be driving. :( And being a member of the local club doesn't help. It seems off road is on the move again. They never had the GP fully booked so early.

Has anybody tried less front kick-up yet, i have and it was loads better, really ripped into the corner and seemed to come out better too, maybe cos the front isn't getting pushed up so much under acceleration by the arms, whatever it is it's much better(used 3 nub shim under 'D' block), min' kick-up is 4 nub shim unless you leave the centre screw out

I have found 3 is best allround too.. even tho i dont know what it does much lol:p

For whom it might concern, the Stotfold setup works fine for me at the Kampenhout track (Belgium). So for all of you coming to the EFRA race you can use it as a base setup.

I found it very agressive but I like it that way. I was using Schum minipins (yellow) front and rear with the outer and inner two rows cut. What I changed in comparison to the Stotfold setup : I went for 45 oil in the front and one type of spring harder, 1,4mm rear stabilizer instead of 1,6mm and a slight reduction in rideheight (about 3mm)

Hi all
i recently aquired a fully modded ZX5 and am in the middle of preparing it for a regioanl this weekend.

I've been advised to run a front diff with a centre one way on the driveshaft. I thought the centre one way was an option part, but a brief conversation with a model shop and the guy thinks it's the same bearing as the front one-way diff, you just swap it into the centre driveshaft. Does anyone know if this is correct, it's just the Kyosho manual is a little less informative than i'm used to!

thanks
James

yes mate.. The car comes with two one way bearings, the diff one way uses both. the Centre one way uses just the one. The best option is just to buy another bearing so you can use both easily without so much messing about.

So if they are in the diff one way you'll have to pull one out - not sure how easy that is as its been a while since I looked.

cool, cheers Jimmy.