A Lazer Zx-r for racing

[Welshy40]

Looks stunning with my shock towers, thanks for that. Lovely job.

[Ema]

The electronic is ready !!

Motor: Orion Vortex 6.5 (new)
ESC: Xerun 120 v1.1 (used but like new)

[Ema]

Uh, fitting the new huge brushless electronic on the Lazer is really a difficult task, however at the end I'm quite satisfied .

[trd179v]

EMA..Your Setup is very Hip-no-tizing!

Originally Posted by Ema

Uh, fitting the new huge brushless electronic on the Lazer is really a difficult task, however at the end I'm quite satisfied .

[Welshy40]

Nice, but why the orion instead of the LRP SXX TC as that fits more easily, and the new speed passion motor with the three corally end connectors so no soldering on the motor. Still looks good.

[Ema]

Originally Posted by Welshy40

Nice, but why the orion instead of the LRP SXX TC as that fits more easily, and the new speed passion motor with the three corally end connectors so no soldering on the motor. Still looks good.

You are right, but I will definitely need to find a sponsor for buying all that newest stuff !!!!

[Welshy40]

Hehe well the sxx tc esc is noticably quicker. But if it works why change it.

[rondoolaa]

great car ema

[Ema]

Originally Posted by rondoolaa

great car ema

Thanks !!!

I just finished (yesterday night) to paint the body and the undertray, so I will complete this building tread soon ....very soon !!

Bye
Ema

[isobarik]

yeah show us some body pics .....

what type pf body are you going to use ???

mvh isobarik

[kek23k]

Looking sweet Ema. I'm very jealous lol

[Ema]

As promised ..... some picture of the car with the body .

For the body I used a Zx-r repro found some months ago (you can see that body also in the other Zx-r thread, the long one ) delivered by hand from a guy that lives 15 km away from my house ....

I have to admit that I'm not really a great painter, however looking at the Zx-r body I thought that was not really a good thing using a too complex painting scheme. This because the body is full of small details and so I prefer to didn't hide them with flames, tribals, bubbles and so on.

Ok, now it's time for some photos, hope you like them .









Need to get some other DMS decals, as they match perfectly my paint scheme !!!

[Ema]

A little note about the battey retaining system .....

During the build I changed my mind and I prefer to use a simple, effective and old style method called ..... velcro .
And in order to keep the battery in a fixed position I cut two small pice of 1mm Lexan and fixed them to the battery using some double sided tape.





Now the car is ready to hit the track, probably this happen the 12th of December at the first of our indoor (not vintage) race in Bologna (Italy).
For that date I still need to find a couple of associated front blue springs (I already got the rear silver ones) and two B44 offset spring cups (9724) for the front shocks (now the shock collar is at the bottom end of the threaded part of the shock body, but the car is a little too low).

Bye
Ema

[Welshy40]

Very nice. Dont forget the car is now 225 grams lighter with Lipos so you will need to soften the suspension a bit. Good luck on the track

[Boyracer]

Fantastic rebuild How did it work on the track? I have 2 Lazers myself, one buildt to race. Welshy40 helped me a lot a couple of years ago, thanks for that

[Ema]

Originally Posted by Boyracer

Fantastic rebuild How did it work on the track? I have 2 Lazers myself, one buildt to race. Welshy40 helped me a lot a couple of years ago, thanks for that

Glad to know that another Lazer Fan likes my rebuild !!!

I run the car only twice in two indoor meetings.
The first one was the first time on the track for my Lazer and I spent all the time in fixing minor issues (all related to non kyosho parts ), in order to get more reliability .
At the second meeting the car performed well among newer cars and only few people recognize that I was using a 20 years old model .
I still need to find a better setup and probably I have to adjust a little the weight distribution, but the feeling is that the car can still compete at high level.



Bye
Ema
P.S. Welshy also helped me a lot of times ; it is incredible the work he made around the Lazer platform but the best part of his work is that he share everything with us, so now in 2011 we can still find a lot of parts ...... thank you James (Welshy40) .

[Welshy40]

Guys your all welcome. Im glad that there are lazer fans out there just as passionnate about this as i am and i went out of my way to make sure that this car will still be going years from now.