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Hello all!
Im doing a restoration of an Gallop MK2 and need 2 front dogbones and 2 rear dogbones. Can someone please tell me the length of the fronts and rears?

Regards Patrik

I found my old Kyosho Alpha at the back of the garage a couple of weeks ago.
it was last ran 15+yrs ago and has been in a box since I clipped a curb breaking the rear diff casing and suspension arm.

I ordered the bits and started stripping the car,...

EDIT: I have acquired a manual. I took pictures & have made a PDF file. It is now posted here Thanks Lowgear for helping make it happen!

I'm restoring an original Tracker (30324), while it doesn't need much, I haven't been able to find a manual...

Well, thought I would let everyone know Why I haven’t been on here for a while, and the reason being I decided to sell up my collection of Kyosho RC cars.
Not for any major reason, just a number of circumstances that made me decided the time was...

I picked this big brute up a few months ago...

Hey guys,

Been a long time since I posted something up on the forum.

Today, I will share the resto I did on this near mint Turbo Optima Mid.

This is the car as I got it from a buddy of mine:

The car was in decent shape, just took a hit...

As I mentioned a few weeks ago in the So what did you get in the post today -thread , I received a Kyosho Impress wreck as well as some parts for the Impress.

The Impress is Kyosho's mid-1990s electric Formula 1 car, and is an evolution of their...

Had a Kyosho Optima Mid as a kid and upgraded with a Brimod (stick pack) long wheel base chassis, was a great car and i was reasonably successful racing at my local club. I subsequently sold all cars as I moved on to mountain biking. All these years...

Hello, i got an kyosho pureten alpha (first gen) and im having one hell of a time finding a manual and some plastics for it, if you know where i can find these i would appreciate the help greatly.
Thanks.

Hi everyone!

This isn't quite the usual order of build that I'd like to share. My 'donor' car is a vintage Kyosho Salute, that I'd assembled about 6 or 7 years ago. Some recent vintage parts that I was able to find led me to want to re-configure my...

Just off the shelf,
Time to clean and tune the old girl.
All the cool mods from back in the day . DuraTrax head, pipe and ball diff. Thorp disc brake. Ported the case and sleeve in the CZ-R. Robinson Racing Front caster kit. Ramp1sm.jpg

So I have never done a build thread before, I usually forget to take pictures as I tend to work in spurts - aka get distracted and buy new projects instead of completing existing ones.

Case in point, instead of buying the body, decals and tires to...

Kyosho's decision to re-release the 1/12 Fantom has really helped introduce to the world today an iconic model back then better known domestically.

Interestingly they picked the 1983 version and not the Fantom EXT. The 1983 Fantom had basically no...

I actually built this over a year ago and made several YouTube videos about the process (below), but figured I'd post here for posterity, with a few extra pictures and commentary.

This was raced at VONATS in 2019, but I made changes since then....

Random FB Marketplace search for Kyosho one night ended up with a result for a 1979 Eleck Rider 1/6 Motorcycle just on the other side of the state from me. At that point, that was all I knew about it, other than the seller had just reduced the price...

Bit different, but still Kyosho and still vintage,
Cassablanca tunnel hull with twin
Johnson Mabuchi 380 outboard motor set ups.
Pretty average condition but cleaning up nicely, there is some yellowing and some fine cracks on the plastic, but i...

Hello, i have a problem with pull start on my mp9 tki3 buggy. When i try to start the engine, pull start normally doesn't pull back, i don't know why, i put a brand new pull start and nothing fixed. Though when the engine bites it pulls back, and...

Well, it has taken some time but I’m finally here. After over 40 years in the surface RC hobby this will be my first venture into Stadium Trucks and I’m very much looking forward to it. I’ve been looking for a project truck to pop-up for sale for...

Got this with a YZ-10 and its very mint, too good to bash, looks like its been run a couple of times and shelfed.
Going to restore and fit 2.2 pepper pot rims, more excited about the old school Tekin 411P and reciever that im fitting too.

Managed...

Since I’ve been putting off building my NIB kit for so long. I though I’d add this to the shelf. Super clean truck, couldn’t have been run much at all. I pulled all the decals because they were placed pretty random and they were dirty and lifting....

Hi.

I need some help to find a spare part to my Kyosho Scorpion from 1982.

In the building manual its referd as : 87.7.10160 and is a pinion gear with 10 theth and outer diameter of aprox 12mm with a center hole of 4mm.
I have serched the internet...

I haven't been on here in over 5 years.... but I am back! Thanks again for all of the help in the past.

Last night I figured I would give my Big Brute one last attempt at fixing it. I had purchased bearings about 5 years ago but had got so...

Hi Kyosho people,

I never ran a Kyosho back in the day, so have picked one up to scratch my itch, and see how it compares to the Yoko and Cat.
If anyone has any pointers or advice on the ZX-R, please let me know.

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It has been awhile since I have been on this forum but it is great to be back, have missed it. This is my first non-Yokomo project outside of the occasional RC10T & GT but after finding this poorly listed Kyosho Burns on the bay, I shot the seller...

I put a $37 Surpass Hobby 9T 4370 brushless combo in it and it got the much needed kick in the pants it needed! The power is just about perfect now! While the top end was pretty good, it had really poor acceleration after going from the stock...

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Here is the beginnings of my Resto-Mod of my Turbo Ultima
Original chassis,(of course), original rear bulkhead, and swaybars. Located an original front bulkhead.
Rear of the bulhead is all new Ultima. CNC motor plate, rere...

Hi Guys

As I Race Kyosho rb7/zx7 I thought I would add a Kyosho vintage car to the fleet

So I got this crappy looking raider off eBay for £10.00

I was thinking mid motor, gear diff could be a good vintage racer if I can work some magic on it!...

I was looking for a .8 mod pinion for my Raider that wasn’t over priced (32 pitch would probably work but was being OCD). This Arrma pinion looks like it could be perfect.

Does this look like it would fit a normal 540 motor? I just know nothing...

Build thread for the unknown Kyosho Pro XRT 1/10th electric stadium truck . I have always thought it was a great looking truck. I would happen across a random picture of the truck when looking over vintage RCCA magazines from the mid 90's, and tell...

I have some old Kyosho servos that I am lining up for restorations. KS-88a, KS-88b, KS-91 & KS-100 (late 80’s-early 90’s) ..and can’t find specs for them. Checked the servodatabase, the Pulsar manual, Kyosho catalogs.. I DID find specs for the...

Hi all,

Have started to work on a new project - hope you like it.

Any thoughts on where to take this build are appreciated.

There were quite a few surprises when I received the original car and took it apart: Ball bearings throughout, Tomahawk...

Hello,
Was recently given 2 older kyosho nitros by two different people. Would like to get an ID on one and no idea where to start. Will post pics.

Has an OS Max (CZ) pull start not shown that's currently soaking.

OK, so after I read up on how...

I recently picked up a Kyosho Turbo Ultima from a neighbor who was cleaning out his garage. I'm not really much of a vintage RC person but I do realize the car has some value to someone. What would be the best avenue for me to use to either sell or...

So my turbo ultima didn't sell on ebay. That being the case I've decided to redo the old girl into something more interesting. I've uploaded a few photos to illustrate the idea I have in mind. I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on a mid motor...

I was given a Kyosho EP Ultima ST roller in rough shape. It is missing some parts but the main issue is the differential. It is chewed up internally and needs the gears replaced. I found the manual on line but it doesn't have parts numbers. Would...

I hope everyone is coping with the pandemic as best you can.

I just picked this lot up, it cost me a good US$300, but I think it's worth it.
Sold the Dynatech to a mate, so that took the cost down.
Looks like a Proline or JG truck conversion and a...

ok guys, yesterday the Le Mans 480 T engine finally arrived, kindly given to me by an old model aircraft friend from Bologna ...
obviously disassembled, passed with light paper on the manifold, brushes replaced, and 3 V running-in immersed in water...

hello everyone, i'm Paolo from Italy, I would like to share with you the luck that has happened to me,
a few months ago a friend told me that he would give me a radio controlled model,
which he used little ... Turbo optima Mid, complete with...

I went to meet a guy this morning to pick up a 1/8 Veterra Glamis, and I noticed he had some other cars in his pics and I asked him if he had anything vintage that he was willing to sell. He said he would bring a couple more cars with him.

At the...

Haaa, I got lucky. Again.
This has to be the best Kyosho score I've had since I bought a closed hobby store's dead stock.
I'd bought a pretty rough Turbo Mid three or four weeks ago and uploaded a photo of the box to Facebook, before it sold....

Hello,

I am building my kyosho ultima II. I Cleaned and replaced some lost or damaged parts. Some upgrades come from my spare box from other cars. I don't have lexan body for ultima, and i thinking on nikko F10 body that i have.

What's your...

Today wasn't my day. I was out running my Turbo Raider and making my first narrative video on Youtube and I ran out of memory about 2/3rd in.... figures. I had hit a cone earlier and cracked my ball link end so it no longer will stay on the ball...

Hey all. I thought to dedicate an own topic for this car.

I started to model some parts to my ST GP some time ago and the things just went out of control when i win a bid on BNIB Ultima ST Type-R EP. Before assembling it, i recreated all the Type-R...

Where my first 4x4 conversion was borrowing a lot from the optima and mid, I'm trying to stay closer to the original ultima with this one.
Major reason: the belt running through the gear box was asking for a perfect sealing: which I did'nt have and...

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...