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Adding weight out wide as with under saddle weights dulls the ability of the car to react to rapid direction changes which is good in some situations and bad in others.

Adding the weight along the centre line does not dull the ability of the car to react but does help the weight distribution equally (for equal weight).

I run the RudeBits weight with typically 2 x 5g weigths on top.

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Lee,
Didn't you weigh my brothers zx6 on your corner scales and it was 50/50 weight distribution? (front to back)

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Thumbs up zx6 corner weights

Jaime,

Weighed your bro's ZX6, and it was 50/50 left right and 50/50 front to rear, car is built saddles, motor forward and servo side ways.

I have ran mine now and definitely needs weight on rear. Just not sure where but roger sorted that out.

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Old 08-03-2015
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Default Zx6 build and install

Just finished wiring my car up to find I made a school boy error of putting the diffs in the wrong way.. Found it so easy to change as the car seems so easy to work on.
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Old 08-03-2015
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Question Shorty or Saddles

Gents,

what is the consensus on the car set up yet, shorty or saddles?

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Only run it in shortie so far, seems I prefer the car to be stiffer sprung in the rear with shortie than most do with saddles so not sure what you can read in to that.

Saddles should be more planted but I'm happy enough with the shortie car now so sticking with it, will upload a base shortie setup soon.
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Only run it in shortie so far, seems I prefer the car to be stiffer sprung in the rear with shortie than most do with saddles so not sure what you can read in to that.

Saddles should be more planted but I'm happy enough with the shortie car now so sticking with it, will upload a base shortie setup soon.
with outdoors coming up on us is there any chance of a base set up got grass??

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Hi mate, I can't think of anywhere local enough to head to that still runs grass! I do tend to find that I change cars very little from Kidderminster setup to grass due to all the surface changes and bumps at Kiddy meaning you have to go for a "safe" setup. Will be posting one up very soon.
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Most if not all the rounds are on grass in the WRCA roger, you should come down for them!

Ball diffs over gear diffs on grass Lee, especially when things start to cut up I reckon!
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were can I get a chassis protector from for the ZX6 ?
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Stu je models sell them, think they are about £17 ish??

Mike I might have to give them a a try (maybe lol)

Have you run yours yet mike? What do you think of it??
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Contact afun1979 on here, might not be as funky but they are functional, lot cheaper as well. Come with all the screw holes precut, you just remove those that you require, when you need to.
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Most if not all the rounds are on grass in the WRCA roger, you should come down for them!

Ball diffs over gear diffs on grass Lee, especially when things start to cut up I reckon!
If they don't clash with mid west regionals I might just do a few as a guest.

Oh and your not wrong about ball diffs being better on a cut up track either!
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Stu je models sell them, think they are about £17 ish??

Mike I might have to give them a a try (maybe lol)

Have you run yours yet mike? What do you think of it??
Good car, balanced and very easy to drive straight out the box after adding a bit or weight in the back. I would say though that its not as much fun as the Hot bodies as that was just a mad mad car but its certainly faster in my hands as I can be more consistent with it.

I've only really had one club night running it so am looking forward to another go this Friday.

Feel free to pop over! Racing starts at 7:30 so if you let us know to book you in that should give you some time to get over.

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So just about ready to run my ZX6 for the first time this Sunday outdoor at Bury

Only spare parts I have are some new front and rear towers but I have a shed load of spares from my ZX5 FS2 and was wondering what parts are compatible ?

I didn't build the ZX6 so not sure
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Hi there,

Quite a lot of parts are shared from the FS/2
Wishbones are LA272 , Front and rear hubs are also the same, but not the knuckle arms which is why they carry a different part number.
Front and rear driveshafts are the same (but not the centre ones) .
Then the Diffs - these are pretty much the same.
Lastly the wheels and hex’s.
I think that’s all…….

Hope this help you ??

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Hi there,

Quite a lot of parts are shared from the FS/2
Wishbones are LA272 , Front and rear hubs are also the same, but not the knuckle arms which is why they carry a different part number.
Front and rear driveshafts are the same (but not the centre ones) .
Then the Diffs - these are pretty much the same.
Lastly the wheels and hex’s.
I think that’s all…….

Hope this help you ??

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Yeh that helps, cheers Rob
I have so many spares for the FS2 so no point in buying loads of duplicate parts.
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Hi mate, I can't think of anywhere local enough to head to that still runs grass! I do tend to find that I change cars very little from Kidderminster setup to grass due to all the surface changes and bumps at Kiddy meaning you have to go for a "safe" setup. Will be posting one up very soon.
Hi Roger,
Any chance of looking at your setup for out door astro ?
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PM me your email address Stu.

I'm still working on the ZX6, only been able to work with shortie thus far and I'd like to try saddles too.
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I've heard of some people running DEX410 gear diffs in the ZX6, how easy is this to do?
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