New ZZ-M - NEW FEATURE

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:34 pm

Ok, you guys know about the new ZZ-M Bigfoot and Carolina Crusher trucks.

Was in RadioHack today after parts for a radio project I'm building, had to wander over to the ZZ section. They had the new DB5 and the trucks

Then I notice a new logo has been added to the front of the new truck box. It shows a wheelie with an arrow going up, and a set arrows going in a flat circle. WHAT? I know they can wheelie, but what is this arrow?

So I look the box over trying to figure out if that means what I think it does, I notice a new tag on the specs side that says something about a "spinning kit"? I turn it over to check out what I can see of the chassis, and up in the top under the tape, we have what appears to be another of the rear 'diff' plates. We may now have something that goes in replacing the rear 'diff' section giving us 4ws, tank steer, or atleast the equivilent of cutting brakes.

After lunch I'm going back, full report to follow once I have one.

richh · Post by **richh** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:30 pm

don't get too excited... i picked up a new bigfoot a few days ago. the spinning kit consists of too extra plastic covers, one for the motor and one that replaces the rear axle cover on the bottom of the truck. both of these new pieces have a little arm molded in the plastic. on the end of the arm is a little wheel. so basically when you do the reverse into forward deal to pop a wheelie, the truck is now able to spin on these small wheels.

chrome · Post by **chrome** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:49 pm

Sounds interesting rich, can you post a picture. I'm still not sure what you mean.

Later,
Chrome...

viperdout · Post by **viperdout** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:07 pm

If it's a wheelie bar, I want one. 3.6 volts of pure li-po power and stacked fets have kept the front wheels in the air most of the time.

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:10 pm

Oh, well that sounds rather lame. If I'd read this before I went out and got one... Guess I'll try to grab a pic once my camera has some charge.

The cheap looking xerox instruction page for the "Spinning Action Kit" says "...the truck stands up by the rear wheels and makes a 360 degree spin counter-clockwise"

If it's determined that it is a very lame change, let me be the first to say: Frizzen you made a fucking newb-assed post, I'm going to delete this whole damn thread. Bad frizzen!!!

The gearbox cover has a wheel in wheelie bar orientation, it's on the non-gear side. Should work for your LiPo monster

viperdout · Post by **viperdout** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:27 am

frizzen wrote:The gearbox cover has a wheel in wheelie bar orientation, it's on the non-gear side. Should work for your LiPo monster

Hmmmm, anyone wanna sell one then? Flipping over backwards is a PITA.

richh · Post by **richh** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:30 am

here's a pic.

if you bought one of these new zzmt's thinking this is some cool new feature then you'll probably be disappointed. i just picked one up because of the new body, so the extra pieces are like gravy

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viperdout · Post by **viperdout** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 2:59 pm

richh wrote:if you bought one of these new zzmt's thinking this is some cool new feature then you'll probably be disappointed. i just picked one up because of the new body, so the extra pieces are like gravy .

Hmmm, if you chop the wheel off of the ount and move it down, BAM, wheelie bar.

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:26 pm

Actually it is a wheeliebar already, but it lets the chassis go up to like 60-70 deg. If you wanted, all you'd have to do is heat it up and bend it down. For the wheel on the motor clamp, you'd have to do more work, chopping it off and moving to mach location of the other one.

For that much work, I'll just as soon chop apart one of the "track guides" off my Kitt Racers.

Oh one last thing, the new Bigfoot body has 1 thing the other didn't. A rear window! So even though I was disappointed that this wasn't some cool new feature, I do like this body much more than the first one.

frizzen · Post by **frizzen** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:13 pm

Is it worth it? You decide.

pimptothemax · Post by **pimptothemax** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:45 pm

I got a zip zaps mt for christmas and i have too agree... the "spin kit" is pretty lame. I wonder if there is any simple way to mod it into a wheelie bar? atleast that way it would have some pourpise that wasn't pure lame.

any ideas?

Michael.mt2k · Post by **Michael.mt2k** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:17 pm

Agreed.

I have a couple of them, and while they are neat to have, they offer little in the way of performance or even looks.