highwayracer's Lazer restoration
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highwayracer's Lazer restoration
hello All,
Decided to take some pictures of various projects that are currently on the bench. This is an original lazer zx. It's interesting to see how different this was from the last optima mid. There are some similarities, but improved drive train and suspension really sets it apart.
This will eventually wind up in the BST section, but for now, I just want to finish it off by adding some yellow velcro straps for the batteries.
Regards,
highwayracer
Decided to take some pictures of various projects that are currently on the bench. This is an original lazer zx. It's interesting to see how different this was from the last optima mid. There are some similarities, but improved drive train and suspension really sets it apart.
This will eventually wind up in the BST section, but for now, I just want to finish it off by adding some yellow velcro straps for the batteries.
Regards,
highwayracer
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
Squeaky clean, I like.
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
Yes, A&L...I had to space it correctly so that everything lines up correctly. Once this was done, the steering geometry was perfect.isobarik wrote:Wery nice
A&L steering ???
mvh isobarik
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
nice build!!! stands out nicely ?:@)
very nice indeed i had two of them but since sold them, beutiful cars .
very nice indeed i had two of them but since sold them, beutiful cars .
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
very nice build I like the yellow tierod ends that match the wheels.
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
very tasteful build buddy, its been a while ha? now the body,what will you go with 

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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
maybe one of marwans optima mid LWB variations could be made to fit
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
Hello Erik,Mr. ED wrote:Nice work, why do you want it to go to the BST?
For me, it's always been about the cars that I wanted but could never afford back when I was younger. The lazer is a great car, but I've always been a hornet/optima/jrx2 kind of guy. I never had an emotional tie with the lazer series.
I got as a part of a lot that I bought...and like all of my projects, I wound up putting a lot of thought and money into the build.
I was very close to keeping this one, but I have too many cars with yellow wheels

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Roger
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
I actually didn't touch this until I sorted everything out in my head. After that, it came together really quickly with the exception of the yellow puretech strap. I have one, but I can't seem to find the other...and I've been putting off getting the ones from ebay.marui hunter 73 wrote:very tasteful build buddy, its been a while ha? now the body,what will you go with
As for the body, I have a lazer alpha body that I got from Erik. On a car with 2.0 wheels, it looks like a fat body...but on a car that has 2.2 wheels, it looks rather muscular.
Regards,
Roger
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
I think Bormac has a buddy that repros the original ZX shell (Ant??? something), I have one on my Lazer so if you want one drop him a pm, although with 2.2 it might look even more like a lawn mowerhighwayracer wrote:As for the body, I have a lazer alpha body that I got from Erik.marui hunter 73 wrote:very tasteful build buddy, its been a while ha? now the body,what will you go with
Regards,
Roger

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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
I bet that doesn't jump very well LOLSynergy wrote: I think Bormac has a buddy that repros the original ZX shell (Ant??? something), I have one on my Lazer so if you want one drop him a pm, although with 2.2 it might look even more like a lawn mower
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Re: highwayracer's Lazer restoration
i have a nip pair of 3x3 yellow puretech saddle straps if you could use them.
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