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Hey Lars, where did you get the little clips to secure your homemade sway bar to the chassis? Did you buy them somewhere or did you make your own? I'm playing around with a spare rear sway bar from an Optima OT-54 part that fits beautifully to the front of the TS, but I don't have anything to fix it...

Will do mate - but I'll get this Optima Pro stripped down first

Thanks mate - yeah, that centre gear's a bitch. The counter gear can be changed for the CRP brass item. Various 1.0 pinions are available on eBay. Centre gear? The guy from Time Tunnel 'melted' his original gear so he had some ground from polyoxymethylene/POM/delrin/acetal (whatever you want to call...

I have one of those still in it's original Kyosho 'OT-74' packaging ready to go in my Optima - it's just a different version I guess.

Hi all, I'm thinking that with the extra grunt that I'm going to be putting through my Turbo Scorpion drivetrain, I should look at putting the old gears in a bag and finding replacements of the same pitch or maybe even replacing with a different pitch. Does anyone know what the gear pitch is in the ...

I had to track some down for a set of Raider wheels that I bought for my Turbo Scorpion. Seller 'crunchy550' on eBay has sets of Proline tyres that work - he even states what diameter the tryre is for in his listing. Seller 'teamcrp'has some spiked CRP fronts that will work too. Out of interest, my ...

I'm going to lock my TS away now, in case Franco has it away too!

Cool - great looking Ultima

I'm about to get similar wheels from pargu for my Turbo Scorpion. What rubber are you running on those?

Cool, thanks Paul. I'll give that a go... I can't wait to get her going again. Possibly tomorrow

I did that the other day Lars - I dremeled a flat spot on the axle outboard of the tapered drive washers and the Axial 12mm hexes slot on nicely. I've found an old set of nib Raider rims to retain the vintage feel and it all seems to work very well :D I can keep my original rims and tyres in one pie...

Awesome!

The reinforcing for the front end looks like it would be pretty hard on the plastic radio tub

Ah - cool. What temperatures should I be aiming for and avoiding?

No worries... I'm happy to run the old motors if only for novelty vintage nostalgia. What else would be recommended to give a bit more output? I'm running Venom nimh packs in the old cars. The TS has a rotary servo operated speed controller (for now) and the Optima Pro will have a '90 vintage Novak ...

He he he! I am actually a bit about doing it period style.... the Turbo Scorpion did have a blast with the 240SB and the and Supers at Mitchell Park here in Adelaide about 5 or 6 weeks ago. It did put out a good show of speed, but there was unreliable control, probably because I was in such a rush t...

Interesting - I've had a look at some info re magnetic field deterioration, and there's some evidence that it does happen, but not significantly if the magnet isn't exposed to high temperatures and shock/impact. Two of these motors were nib - the 240SB and AP36, so they should be ok. The 360E and 48...