My Zip Zap SE ,with kyosho inside.

sat4life27 · Post by **sat4life27** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:32 am

Hello fellow Pimps.... This is my first time here and was recommended by big pimpin LBRC to show you all my latest project car. It is a Zip Zap SE with a kyosho mr01 pcb. When I first saw LB's ZZMT with the iwaver pcb I was instantly amazed and full of ideas for a project of my own. I will post some pics from the different stages of the project from the first working prototype to the finished product here. I am working on a full write up on how to make your own.

This is a pic of when I got it installed and working. At this time I had a xmod servo pot fit inside because the SE's pot is a 10k and wouldn't work right with the pcb (later fixed by using a 10k resistor on the SE's pot). I had to trim off the drive motor tabs for it to fit over the chassis as good as possible.

This second pic is of the first revision I made with mounting the crystal on the side to allow a body to fit over the chassis, also added some shrink wrap to hold everything down.

The stock SE's antenna was working ok but I wanted more range (was getting about 10 to 15 feet) so I used a spare xmod antenna and bent it to go under the body so it would be easier to add and remove the body (range is anywhere from 20 to 25 feet now).

Now I upgraded the power source. I found some nimh button cells that was small enough to fit 4 (4.8v hehe) into the stock battery holder. The work very well but my runtime is decreased since the are only 40mah batts (after testing them I removed them until I can get some shrink wrap to make them a small pack).

Here is the pic of the final revision. I switched to a 2nd gen chassis (was in a 1st gen) and used the SE's servo pot with the resistor. Cleaned up the wiring

Hope you like and thanks again LB for your help...later pimps!!!

hue35 · Post by **hue35** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:45 am

Helluva a first post, man. A little blurry on the pics, but it looks like it's a sweet ride. How does it drive?

Post by **CaboWabo** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:57 pm

ditto, what a first post!
welcome aboard man.

any chance we could get some better pics?

LBRC · Post by **LBRC** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:06 pm

Thanks Sat4

, and welcome.

steelwoolghandi · Post by **steelwoolghandi** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:41 pm

Real Cool Deal I am amazed you can get that PCB to fit in there that looks great! Maybe you can get some clearer pictures as I would like to see more detail in that thing!
Thanks for sharing!

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:14 pm

Yes, a great first post.

...and I agree with the others on the pics.

Does the body fit on properly?

Very interesting. The range on that must be far.

sat4life27 · Post by **sat4life27** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:51 pm

Glad to be a part of the pimphood... as you can tell I couldn't make up my mind as to what wheels I wanted to use. I decided that Chevelle and the fatties was they way to go. I would say the handling is about that of a real mini-z, as far as the smoothness of the throttle and steering. It's turning radius is about the same as a regular SE (due to the chassis design but if you trim the steering rod it will turn until the wheels hit the chassis. The runtime with the stock 2 cells is about the same as a regular SE with the lights hooked up. The range is alot better, I honestly don't know how far it would go because it gets to small for me to really see. I have 5 SE bodies (RX-7, A86, Levin, Chevelle, and GTO), all fit fine but the GTO is a little low in the back and hits the back of the pcb.

Here is a better shot of the chassis. This is about the best I can get with the cheap cam I have.

also I have small vid I made of it when with the first revisions made.

http://www.rcpics.net/view_single.php?medid=54634 2.3mb wmv

stagg · Post by **stagg** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:40 pm

Me like, Me like ...

Anyways, I think that your car should be rollin on dubs man. Otherwise, nice mod. and cool vid, but i wonna see that shit's speed.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:42 pm

Yea the propo looked so smooth in that vid, excellent.

But now I wanna see that thing dis-appear because the range is so far.
That's gotta be nice to be limited by your eyes instead of frequency range.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:28 pm

Well that's pretty cool. I had planned to get an Iwaver PCB to put into a MT, some day, but now I see that I'm gonna need several. I hope Toyeast keeps selling those for a while. Those are some handy PCBs, and a bargain at $22.

mod_o_matic · Post by **mod_o_matic** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:30 pm

I can't get the dam video! Dam it! I comes up with code...erg..any help?

Looks good and amazing it fits in sooo dam nicely...

JDM-R34 · Post by **JDM-R34** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:32 pm

Thats some nice work there, esp. for your 1st and 2nd posts, keep up the good work!

Post by **CaboWabo** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:34 pm

mod_o_matic wrote:I can't get the dam video! Dam it! I comes up with code...erg..any help?

Looks good and amazing it fits in sooo dam nicely...

Try updating your media player (codecs).

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:41 am

well i'm sold! i'd love my se to run perfectly.

sat4life27 · Post by **sat4life27** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:38 pm

Here is one last picture of the whole setup (with my freshly painted RX-7 body). The controller is a Jaguar T2P by ACE R/C. It is modded with a 12v dc-dc converter I made so it only needs two batteries to work. I took the SE controller and gutted it out and put the charger electronics out of a superslick controller to charge the car. I have a adjustable power adaptor that slides into for power when I have access to plugin, or I can pop in the batteries to charge it on the go. I found the schematics for the converter on the internet and can email a pdf file to anyone interested in it. I think it cost about 12 dollars for enough to make two.