70MPH ZX5 and a rather big jump
 

Hi all not been on here for a while used to post under the name Monkey but with summer coming around and being home from uni im starting to get out and about with my RC's more. Here are a few pics from today speed gunned my ZX5 at 70 MPH then jumped it was really funny till i got home and looked what it was going to cost to repair it :035:

A speed run or two (with a nackered spur gear)
http://lincit.myzen.co.uk/modellinch...ars/zx5/70.JPG
Mid air
http://lincit.myzen.co.uk/modellinch...rs/zx5/air.JPG
And after the second jump
http://lincit.myzen.co.uk/modellinch.../zx5/after.JPG

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HOLY !@#$ that is some sweet airtime! haha! how did the lipos hold up after you landed?

Holy sh*t!!! Thats crazy!! Should have gotten some video of that. :027:

How high do you think it was, and how far?

lipos are fine all though i have had one blow up in the past after doing simlar jumps.

not really much of an idea about how far or high id guess at about 70 foot its on video from two angles [plug]will be on the TM DVD[/plug]

Looks like 30 feet air to me.

Hey Evil Canevil!

HOLLY!!!!!

DAMN! thats INSANE!!!! whats the damage? bessides what we see? lol

maybe its very hard to tell from that angle only measured a jump once and that was 70 foot (measured on the ground with a tape measure the jump is at the end of one of the TM DVD trailers) and it was going slower then thats what i based my guess on.

The damage is by far the worst ive ever done and ive done jumps this big quite a few times with it now but normally on to flat concreate this was like rubble and quite bumpy.

off the top of my head:
both shock tower
chassis
top brace
slipper shaft
drive shaft (which i bent back)

I honestly lol

It's a car not a plane ;)

Serious hang time!

Gotta see some video of that!

It's a bird, it's a plane, no wait it's an RC car!

Pretty sweet man! Question; is that a 2 speed I spy:dft012:? I saw some of those on ebay a while ago...

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You surely had some ACTION with this Kyosho buggy.
Is that a XL motor or L size one?

yes it is a 2 speed got it of ebay

Its an s can i think dunno what turn cant remember 5cm long if someone would like to confirm it.

5cm would be a S can motor

That's awesome man! That air looks like a lot more than when (I believe Josh Cyrul) jumped the house with his 8th scale!

I live near an AFB, They would have scrambled the fighters on that jump

now that should be on those extreme DVD!ss.. GOOD JOB!!!

Shoulda had a GPS on it, then you could check altitude!

I believe it will be

Wow! I don't know how I missed this thread, but HOLY COW! You just need to have some kind of setup where you flick ch3 and wings snap out to get some serious glide. :)

Dude that's the sickest thing I've ever seen. Seriously, that's just sick! Congrats!

Yeah, like a transformer! LOL

Make for a softer landing too.

Were do you see a 2 speed ?. I dont see it.

You see the gold can-thingy on the motor? That is the 2 speed, though I could never figure out how you would have brakes while using it...

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If you look real closely at the pic where the truck is in the air, you can just barely see it.

lol, j/k. Looks like it must be that yellow part of the motor. I wonder if it's a planetary drive setup that has a clutch that engages different parts of it to make the two ratios, kinda like how an automatic tranny in a real car works. That would allow the use of brakes and reverse too.

EDIT: Argg. cemetary beat me to it. I gotta stop getting distracted when replying...

Very cool will that work on any BL motor ?. Also since it's a two speed how would you know what pinion to choose ?.

Look what I found:p

http://cgi.ebay.com/TWO-SPEED-Transm...QQcmdZViewItem

Thats very interesting .

I wouldn't go any higher than an S motor for that since it doesn't look like it would stand up to serious torque.

I think that would totally kick butt in a touring car.

I could get my RS4 up to 100mph with that! lol

Geez, when I first saw that second picture, I thought it was a helicopter.

:D Somehow I feel like there is something wrong with shooting your poor buggy that high into the air. But the fact that you just blatantly have no care about busting up you buggy is great. Wish I had the guts to fling a lipo that high into the air. :p

I like the little 2 speed thing though. Simple and effective. Isn't that similar to the gearboxes they use in electric airplanes? I wonder if a heavy duty one could be made for 5mm shafts, with 2 or 3 outrunner gears for extra strength. Theres room inside that housing to fit them.;)

I wouldn't do one with a high speed vehicle, no brakes

...no brakes; that would SUCK

Damn...I don't think 5 of my biggest jumps can equal that.

yea the 2 speed does disable the brakes and reverse but on that day i was running in with the motor jamed onto the spur gear really hard because the spur was stripped so there was enogh drag to act as an effective brake.

Thanks for the comments all.

Oh lord, 70 mph with a draggin' gearmesh?? That's sick! :eek: Keep going! :)

planing to just got a pack of bits in the post this morning and replaced all the broken bits except the front shock tower now im just waiting on that and my mamba 6800 package i see the 2s limit as more of a challange than a limit lol still have my 5700 to stick back in if i trash the bearings.