Ultimate SE ? How? What? Who?

LBRC · Post by **LBRC** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:41 pm

What makes/would make one bad ass ultimate SE?
Have you built it, seen it, plan on building it, waiting for a key ingredient (i.e. parts, time, money, painting, modeling, or soldering skill)?
Extreme or still recognizable, when is it disqualified as no longer a ZipZap SE.
What comes first looks or performance?
Speed/torque, handling, the ability to change motors/gears or a perminent hot setup?
LiPo’s or 110 mAh NiMH?

I have a few chassis and a dozen or so bodies but what would be your ultimat ZipZap SE? They all have advantages, even a completely stock gen-4 chassis since it’s more than fast enough for small track.

The 5th chassis from the left doesn’t actually have the DC mod yet it’s ready and patiently waiting on CS and the mail.

stagg · Post by **stagg** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:48 pm

LBRC wrote:What makes/would make one bad ass ultimate SE?
Have you built it, seen it, plan on building it, waiting for a key ingredient (i.e. parts, time, money, painting, modeling, or soldering skill)?
Extreme or still recognizable, when is it disqualified as no longer a ZipZap SE.
What comes first looks or performance?
Speed/torque, handling, the ability to change motors/gears or a perminent hot setup?
LiPo’s or 110 mAh NiMH?

I have a few chassis and a dozen or so bodies but what would be your ultimat ZipZap SE? They all have advantages, even a completely stock gen-4 chassis since it’s more than fast enough for small track.

The 5th chassis from the left doesn’t actually have the DC mod yet it’s ready and patiently waiting on CS and the mail.

Man, that One on the right, is fucking crazy, teh Epoch CB was genius(?) I also loved the underglow and body you had on it. I'm thinking of making one, just to show off to my friends.

O, do you think i could use an Old SE? Cuz i wouldnt be using the board?

LBRC · Post by **LBRC** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:55 pm

Stagg – Correct. I used two generation one chassis, but you could do it with just one. Like you said your tossing CB. You do need a good pot but as far as I can tell the pot and gears have not changed at all.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:28 am

i'm pretty happy with my "ultimate se".

i waver pcb
etec 80mah lipo
xtrek 3.4 motor
scala 43 alloys

it all fits easily under any body with room to spare. and it's stupid fast, i'm yet to find a surface smooth and large enough to really open it up!
i personally don't feel a need to add a zzmt motor, it's plenty powerful as it is.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:12 am

Out of your collection, I'd say the ultimate is the one with the Iwaver PCB. The one with the Epoch board just doen't quite count as an SE. (It'd look funny on the track with the smaller cars.

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A FET modded gen4 SE is the ultimate for me, cause it's plenty fast for my kitchen, and I just can' stop looking at that 'Vette body.

sat4life27 · Post by **sat4life27** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:01 am

Can't wait to hear how the dc mod works for you LB. I went to Biglots the other day and found they had Modifiers cars on slae for 6 bucks. I picked one up and modded the hubs to work on the SE. For the front all you need to do is file off tje lip on the back of the hub so it will go further into the wheel. The hubs holes are a little bigger the the rear axle but a rear axle from a motorworks car is perfect. Just widen the holes on the chassis where the axle snaps in and the hubs fit perfect. They are metal wheels and the tires have good traction. They are a little heavier so your rotationg mass is a little more but the weight halps keep it from flipping as well.

Here is a couple picks of my vette with them.

Sorry if I sound like I am rambling, I am on loritab right now. Had a little surgery yesterday.

evoraptor · Post by **evoraptor** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:24 am

i read somewhere that there was a tut for this, or something like that, because i have seen this. nice work anyway though

http://bitpimps.lixlink.com/pages/phpFo ... php?t=5148

LBRC · Post by **LBRC** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 1:34 pm

BK – Am coveting the Scala wheels. “Stubid fast” is a great way to describe the IW modded LiPo SE, I had fun on a larger RCP track with mine but there is a definite lack of places to drive it and no one to race against, am currently modifying a Lakeshore track by sanding the surface and adding a light coat of chalkboard paint to make it more modified SE friendly, it’s showing some promise. The ZZMT motor is definitely not needed, I screwed up and mounted mine too far forward anyway so am planning on re-doing it.

Sat - Like the modifier wheels too, “tJe"

drugs are working I hope, no pain.

CzD – That’s what prompted the thread, I rally like the Epoch chassis especially since I was able to add lights and El-underglow to the SS body but to me it seems more like a modified SS than a Zip. It even seems that without some sort of “ultimate” body and wheels to go with the IW car it’s not quite right either, in fact even the larger TX makes it feels sort of un-ZipZap like. So far my favorite SE chassis is the gen-4 with the LiPo and Bypass stacked FWD FETs, with wide tires and a modified controller. But it needs something (body wheels etc.) to make it really special, since it’s not fully proportional like the other two it falls short.

Am simply not satisfied with any of mine yet, for me it seems that the SE bodies and wheels are letting me down. I would also like to do something to improve the front suspension a little.

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