SH Z-Car ZMXB-8 1/8 Buggy - Perfect for conversion?

[MrZ]

Cool, I'm running the Medusa 36-60 2200, with a Mamba Monster ESC. Also, I'm using a Lipo 4s 4800, which works great. The only thing you might what to look into is the fact that your battery tray might be a little too short to fit a 6s. From looking at what you have, I believe that I have the same battery tray, if in fact you got it from Monster (two sizes.) I went with the longest one, but still came up a little short, the battery was just too long. What I did do was to drumal one of the battery tray open and placed a heavy duty valcro on both the battery and base of the plate. Along with strapping it down, it holds fine. I even took a good hit on the front-end and it didn't move a bit. Just to confirm you might want to measure the lipo that you will be using. A 6s is pretty bid. The trick is to use the heavy duty velcro. Or, hopefully you custom ordered your tray to fit the 6s. I didnt' do that which I should have. However, what I did fixed the problem. Hope this helps.

[Shark413]

Early I mentioned that the shock valve on the stock Z-Car didn't look very effective, because it had holes in it. I have been using shock valves in my Kyosho and Revo PE for a while and decided to mod the Z-Car shocks to incorparate a true valve. I took some Traxxas variable damping valves and added them to the stock Z-Car shocks. The Traxxas valves are solid and block most of the oil flow for true valve action. The small screw used for the stock valve keeps the valve flap from rotating away from the holes. I had to drill out the uncovered hole to adjust the main flow rate (since the two other holes are now covered I needed to increase the main flow) I started by drilling it to 2mm. I can now definetly feel the valve action on the rebound stroke. I like to have more compression damping, and a faster rebound damping, with no valve the damping is basically the same both ways, with a true valve you can adjust the compression damping to suit your needs. As soon as I can find some stiffer springs I will test it out on the track.


Stock Z-Car shock pistons with Traxxas variable valve added. You can see the stock Z-Car valve with holes in it.


Valve, stop screw and a new 2mm hole.




Hard to see but I am checking the valve action with a small pin. Valve open.


Valve closed.

Have 1 of these. Don't plan on using mech brakes so i didn't install them will that be a problem seeing that u installed them, although i see ur not using them. (no brake servo or linkage)