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Hi all, Great thread! Can anyone please help me with a bit of Le Mans tech? I have recently restored my Turbo Scorpion, and have an Optima Pro project on the go now. I want to work out what ratios are suitable for the Le Mans and Spa motors that I have: 240WS 240SB AP36 (same as a 360 Gold) 480WT 36...

Hi Lars! Thanks for asking this on my behalf mate :) I've just bought an Optima Pro too, and it came with... a Spa 240WS! It looks barely used, and came up nicely after I desoldered it, stripped it down and cleaned it out. It also came with a Kyosho AP36 (which has the same specs as the 360 Gold), s...

Nice one! Thanks Lars

Here's my beastie... finally resurrected

Hi Lars, This is great! Thankyou very much for your advice. I did buy the car in '88 and used it to race a mate in the park and backyard for a couple of years, but then it was damaged in a crash and put in a box and forgotten until last year, so I am new to all of this in a way. I certainly wasn't r...

Thanks Lars! I'm taking a slightly different approach with my build. The car is one that I purchased as a kid in 1988, and I am trying to maintain the 'original' appearance of the Turbo Scorpion, and only using genuine original hop ups (i.e. vintage CRP items etc). I am also happy to make modificati...

Now I get to a difficult part for a 26 year old runner/racer, the tires! The Scorpion rims are 1.5” at the rear and 1.9” at the front. To find new tires could cost you a fortune and some time to find. And if you find some tires, they hard as “hockey pucks” (Swedish expression) and no god on the tra...

Hmmmm.... this is very interesting indeed. Prior to putting my Turbo Scorp into storage due to lack of spare parts in Australia I had straightened the chassis rails due to frontal imapct AND smashed up the plastic motor guard. I think I'll need to track down a pair of those chassis braces and a moto...

That sounds exactly like a 1/8" brass tube. The brass tubes that show up on hobby websites are either K&S brand or Albion Alloys and have a 0.014" (0.355mm) wall thickness, which gives an internal diameter of 2.465mm. With a 1.95mm piece of music/piano wire inserted into the tube, that...

Hi Lars,

That's fantastic - thankyou very much! I'll have a crack at it once I've got the car together, but in the meantime that'll help me to get the materials that I need.

Cheers mate!

Mike

Hi Hcp22 and everyone! I've been following this one for a little while. I've dug up my 1987 vintage Turbo Scorpion and I'm restoring it at the moment... and adding the odd improvement. I'll create a thread showing the build when I'm further into it. At the moment I'm keen to incorporate a CRP 1703 s...