Kyosho Lazer ZX-5 buggy to SCT conversion
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:39 pm
Im new to posting in forums. Thought that this project might intrigue some kyosho fans out there considering the only class of rc vehicles they dont make is a 1/10 sct 4x4. My story starts with me buying a proline flowtech body from my lhs. problem was I only had buggies and vintage optima parts. oh and the garage full of tools (wife calls it stuff). So here I am stuck with a body I love and no chassis with a long enough wheelbase. If it were 2 wheel drive I would just extend it with a coustom alloy chassis. I wanted a 4X4 so I started playing around with my extra leftover trashed zx 5 chassis and seeing if some arrangement would allow me to lengthen the wheelbase. Eureka using a gen 1 zx5 driveshaft, a fs front driveshaft, 2 OT-5 outdrive cups, gen 1 zx5 slipper set up, I was able to get the wheelbase to fit the body approximately 12.75 in. using SP front suspension and I found that if I used OT-45 rear hubs the front driveshafts would work and even out the front to rear hex offset. so after many hours fabricating a new chassis and upper deck pieces i was rewarded with a Kyosho 1/10 scale 4x4 sct that I have named the "Minotaur". not real sure how to load pics so I will add an attachment and see what happens.
