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Hi y'all, my names Cash..just joined about a week ago, and made a few intro posts. This seems like a good home for middle aged guys who like middle aged RC cars. Anyway, I was at a buddies house for his sons 21st birthday party, and in between...

I wonder if anyone have or know how to replace Robinson Racing Ultima/Optima spurr gears?

Hello Everyone

I have two 30 plus year old Kyosho RC cars one is an Optima that was a chain drive that has been swapped over to a belt drive, and a Ultima that has a graphite chassis with a front red aluminum nose piece that the front steering is...

Hi,

I'm new to the forum and hoping somebody might be able to steer me in the right direction!

I'm currently in the process of bringing back to life my old Beagle RC car from the late eighties, which is essentially a Maplins clone of a Optima...

I think ive scrounged up enough bits for 2 optimas, the assembled one has hand cut pieces as this was well pre ReRe,
Laser z x-5 wheels etc.
Spent ages cutting carbon bits up to suit
Lost passion in it when i realised these parts are available off...

Where there a mid motor conversion ever sold for the Ultima?

OK....first post for me here...

This build starts here, with a box from Tower Hobbies...from 1988.
Hmmmm, what could be in here?

oh my goodness!

There's the kit, the controller, a charger, two new NiCd batteries, two blister packs of...

I have just purchased a decent Cox Gallop MK I and was wondering if the models that had the gold shocks instead of the bare aluminum ones are hiding any other changes from the earlier model. I take it this model was near the end of the production...

My Turbo Raid LOVES LIPO. I have a 4,200 and 4,600 mah shorty LIPO battery and they fit perfect (after a little help from my Dremel tool. As the Raider's motor is on the left of the car though, the car was really unbalanced if I put the shorty LIPO...

Hello all,

I need to replace the dogbone pins as it seems Kyosho stopped making the OT-6/92645 units and I don't feel like spend a ton. In this video, the show how to replace them with a vice and a 5/32nd socket (2nd half of the video)....

Does anyone know if there is a different part number for a different car that is a substitute for the RK-21 joints . The ones in my Turbo Raider need to be replaced and they are hard to come by!

Thanks!

Hi All,

I am trying to find some information on the Kyosho ZXS cars, looking for review, track reports etc, worlds results, the Evo model was run at the 2001 W/C ( run in 2002)

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I know I’m 20 years behind, but I am struggling on finding wheels to update my Kyosho Pro. I would like to keep the original chassis and axles, are there any 1 for 1 replacements for the 1.9 wheels so I can run UM754 and Um755’s?

I have searched on here and found like 6 posts with not much info about this buggy
would any one care to comment
when it was made
how did it run
junk stay away
whats its story
thank you for your time
marty

Hello, I've just joined this forum as I'm trying to resurrect my old Lazer ZX-RR. I've most of the info I need from this and other forums, but I have some broken/worn parts for the RR variant that I was hoping someone could help me with!

Ultimate...

The Kyosho Icarus is a 2WD entry-level RC car from the year 1985/1986. It has the same chassis as the Pegasus, Cosmo and Cox Bandido. The original motor is the 360ST, size 550, 22 turns - 22,000 rpm and it has independent suspension on four wheels...

Just acquired this . its from all the way back in the 80s, me and my brother raced against it often at our local track so we were stoked to score it. He ran it mostly in oval modified with a vette body so we are gonna to a full Kyosho Salute...

Bitd..I always wanted one of these and finally found a clean mk 1 version for a good price. It has light-medium wear, a few missing pieces, modifications and repairs..but very nice overall. The body is a well done box art scheme from 2017. I have...

I’m pretty sure this is a standard Optima Mid but the wheels have me thrown a bit, they’re actually alloy, I think they’re just aftermarket.

Any information appreciated 👍

I was finally able to get some restoration done on some incomplete Le Mans motors I had stashed in a Ziploc bag, with a big thanks and shout-out to Craig from New Zealand, cas22 on the forum. We traded some parts and what came my way--after a nearly...

My friend was nice enough to give me his childhood Salute which is in remarkable condition for its age. Some basic cleaning and some choice option house upgrades and modern ESC should be it. I think I will keep the cool Lemans gold motor and suspect...

I need to replace the 32-21 Compound Gear in one of my Rocky's. This is the one the motor directly drives.

Found these two auctions by the same seller. One is listed as an RD-11 and the other RD-22 . The latter is a couple of dollars more, but...

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Well I have finally acquired an optima mid to convert into this FF car. I've been wanting to do this for a while so I figured I'd make a thread for it. I've gathered a bunch of...

So my new Optima has what looks like aluminum front hubs......and plastic rear. Is that standard? Or are the front after market? Just curious.

Thanks for all the help.

Hello , at first this project was to build a runner from a stock Optima Mid i picked up from Ebay .

I was given this by an old friend, and am trying to find any info about it. Looks like a Dirt-Road 10. Thankfully, it looks fairly complete. I dont know what my plans are for it yet, but most likely I'll clean it up and it will be a shelf queen. Any...

It's rare to have this much snow in December in Pennsylvania, so my son and I put it to good use! :D

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I was not lucky enough to get my hands on a mint & original Zx-s evo' so, 2 years ago, to achieve my little collection of Lazer family (from Lazer ZX to Zx-7), I had the absurd idea to collect Zx-s parts on internet, after seeing Fibre-Lyte...

Here’s another truck I’ve had stowed away for a while now. Mainly just waiting on a few parts. The truck itself is a very low use “survivor”. The original tires were extremely flat and dry rotten. The original body was horribly painted and the...

I’ve just acquired an OS Max 21 EX to fit into my Turbo Burns but it needs a new connecting rod.
Would anyone know the part number for the correct rod.
Many thanks.

Hello everyone

I’m new to this site and forum, I just purchased a Kyosho Penske Penske PC-19 Indy car (2 of them) as one is for spare parts and neither of them came with a manual or painting instructions for the spare body. I was wondering if any...

What are my body options for a LWB Ultima? I have a U-shaped thick black G10 rear shock tower on it right now, but I also have an A&L trailing arm rear tower that I could use and adapt a body mount to it somehow. I have a Lethal Weapon trans and the...

Hello Team!

I’ve been researching ways to upgrade And USE my Ultima and happy that I found this site. This kit was a gift from my fiancé when we were dating 30 years ago. We are still married.... hell yeah!

Happy to hear any advice on this...

Can anyone identify the body in this video ? I love it for my Plazma, but the comments are disabled & it looks like it's from Japan anyway, so even if I could contact the OP, the language barrier might be an issue too. I really dig it - anyone wanna...

Along side my Pro XL resurrection, I will also be getting my ZX-R back up and running. I have several motors at my disposal, but I want to use the one that has the most torque. Reason being, I will likely be using a 91t spur (stock is 100t) and with...

HELP !! Anyone built tmw-1 ? Triumph front hubs, silly question I know ! Thought I'd start rebuild by rebuilding front end .easy you all shout ! OK, the wheel shaft is smaller in diameter than the hole in the steering arm !
Ie shaft is 6mm hole is...

Last new parts spent on this build.
Ball differentials - Slipper modification - Optima Pro body - AND the finned motor plate.

hi guys, I got new project !! Anybody know if a triumph diff is the same as anything else ?
Cheers all

I've been searching the forums and someone mentioned that the XL wheelbase is ~1/2 (13mm) longer than the base model. But the body I have from Penguin has two cut lines and they're probably only about 6mm apart. Does anyone know for certain how much...

Hi .. A new joiner ...I am 67 and retired - a lifelong model plane builder - used to be nitro now all electric ...Just finished a scratch built 1/10th scale 2 seat Spitfire 😉

I have never owned a nitro car but during lockdown I have been fettling...

I'm looking for a 48P/96T spur gear that's made out of something other than the mushy nylon that fills up with dirt & wears out too quickly (Kyosho Plazma RA)...does this exist?

Hi folks!
Im new here. Looks like the place to be :)
I am going to start a revonavation project on a Kyosho Optima Mid Custom.
I havent touched a RC-car in 20 years and dont remember a thing :)
Q: Can anyone of you professionals maybe tell me what...

Time to restore racing kart 10

Creating a separate thread so I don't hijack the Fantom Re-Re thread; I noticed Kyosho USA has the listing for the Le Mans 480T active, now. Though, they're not in stock .

I might get one for my stock-ish Rocky build, and save the 240S for...

Wanted to share something I've been over-thinking : mounting the electronics in this Rocky. The LeMans esc has two mounting screw holes on the bottom, which is also the heat sink. I want to use the mount and not adhere it, since it's shiny and nice...