Show us your YZ-4!

[dikke hond]

Show us what you got

[rcpower]

Almost ready: still need to add the esc, receiver and send the body out to my painter.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?...3M&usp=sharing

[neallewis]

mine have been posted to the yz2/yz4 facebook group. If i get a moment, i'll prepare the photos for here.

[mes]

Here we go:

[skyaflake]

Still have to paint the body and finish the front shocks. Picture soon.

[Paultje040]

[bagwaa]

[neallewis]

Originally Posted by skyaflake

Still have to paint the body and finish the front shocks. Picture soon.

you're a bit slow

[The Doctor]

Any emerging consensus yet re LiPo orientation, or is it too early?

I'm seeing quite a lot of early-builds like the one above with a lateral (across the car) LiPo layout and not so many with a longitudinal layout, which brings the battery wires perilously close to the spur.

I would have thought that a longitundinal layout would be preferable because it keeps the weight more aligned with the central axis of the car, despite the LiPo not being purely centrally located.

[JohnM]

I've gone for having the lipo across the car at first, as I think it's possibly better for bumpy tracks, but my wires are long enough to go lengthways.

To try and stop it being a "wire muncher" as a mate called it, I knocked up something with an old Hotshot ariel mount & a bit of ariel tube to keep the wires away from the spur.

[Paultje040]

I started with the baterry across, to test different battery location, forword and back.

[rcpower]

good idea, I think I will screw a body post or something on that same screw hole to guide the wires around.

Originally Posted by JohnM

I've gone for having the lipo across the car at first, as I think it's possibly better for bumpy tracks, but my wires are long enough to go lengthways.

To try and stop it being a "wire muncher" as a mate called it, I knocked up something with an old Hotshot ariel mount & a bit of ariel tube to keep the wires away from the spur.

[rcpower]

@Paultje040: is that servo mount coming from the Bmax4? Or is it a special YZ-4 mount? My first thought was the Bmax mount was not a fit, but I must admit I did not look deeply into it.

[andys]

Crikey - everywhere you look on the car is an accident waiting to happen - belts and spur and associated pulleys all totally exposed and wires running close everywhere....

Build one of these and wire it badly at your peril!

[The Doctor]

Originally Posted by JohnM

I knocked up something with an old Hotshot ariel mount & a bit of ariel tube to keep the wires away from the spur.

Ha ha, love the irony of spending over 300 quid on a car and then using "an old Hotshot ariel mount & a bit of ariel tube to keep the wires away from the spur".

[Paultje040]

Originally Posted by rcpower

@Paultje040: is that servo mount coming from the Bmax4? Or is it a special YZ-4 mount? My first thought was the Bmax mount was not a fit, but I must admit I did not look deeply into it.

Yes, its a B-Max4-III servo mount. I took off the little pin. fits just fine.

(The YZ mount has 2 "feet".
have a look at the manual, it shows a chassis with the bmax4 style mount. 2 screwholes and a pin-hole. The changed the chassis after testing with the bmax mount.)

Looking at the picture of the chassis on MIBO, it has the same holes.

[neallewis]

Originally Posted by andys

Crikey - everywhere you look on the car is an accident waiting to happen - belts and spur and associated pulleys all totally exposed and wires running close everywhere....

Build one of these and wire it badly at your peril!

I don't know what you mean Andy? My wiring is clean and in no way will it touch a belt or spur gear.

The speedo fan is a little close to a belt where i've mounted it, but its doesn't touch, and the gel tape will hold it securely.

I think you are just trying to put yourself of getting one to add to your collection ;-)

[rcpower]

Will it offer enough strength without the pin hole?

In fact when I am typing this I think I will just drill a small extra hole in my chassis in stead of cutting it of

Originally Posted by Paultje040

Yes, its a B-Max4-III servo mount. I took off the little pin. fits just fine.

(The YZ mount has 2 "feet".
have a look at the manual, it shows a chassis with the bmax4 style mount. 2 screwholes and a pin-hole. The changed the chassis after testing with the bmax mount.)

Looking at the picture of the chassis on MIBO, it has the same holes.

[skyaflake]

Yes. Fit is good. So if you have a B-Max4 III mount lying around and don't want to spend a truckload of money on a new mount - go for it. It's easy to do.

[bagwaa]

Originally Posted by skyaflake

Yes. Fit is good. So if you have a B-Max4 III mount lying around and don't want to spend a truckload of money on a new mount - go for it. It's easy to do.

Ha awesome, I didn't know this