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Nice and clean, the battery straps are Schumacher Procat/bosscat items, plenty of atermarket carbon at fibrelyte in the uk if you want to go that way, im playing with an original ZX at the moment. I got some kyosho reproduction pepper pot style wheels that are resized to 2.2" for modern tyres f...

Searching posts here i found Tamiya OP-218 #53218 Hard tiuring car drive cups fit nicely into the rebuilt rocky differentials these may work on Raiders too?

Other side, not really happywith the shocks yet

Dug it out, but its pretty rough, guess i could run it on my novak T4

Delta lockdown in New Zealand, time to play with my budget ultima rebuild. Decided to crack open the old MK1 ultima rebuild, having trouble getting parts in NZ so attempting to use up as many parts as possible. Hand cut carbon 3mm top deck, removed battery tabs as shorty will be running along the ch...

New body shells and shocks, Seriously fast service from Team Bluegroove, i'll be ordering off them again soon, Lazer zx shell, original rocky body for my belt conversion project, and some 70mm alloy shocks. Also a hornet body from a New Zealand hobby shop, got a car thrown in for free, cant resist a...

New unassembled Kyosho Lazer ZX 6.6, and once run Ultima RB 6.6, schumacher mini pins, new motor.
Saw these on a local trade site, appreciate its not latest model, but way better than i can drive at my local track
Awesome trade too, well under new price of the Ultima, my weekends sorted.
Stay safe

Still a bit to do, looking at a better battery hold in device, steering turnbuckles, would like to update the steering bel cranks and waiting on some m4 countersunk cap screws for the chassis., Then body, paint and some vintage tekin electronics. Just glad i pushed on with the platinum shocks, tryin...

Got this literally thrown in with a banana box of RC I bought off a local guy, was going to throw it out but noticed it had bearings and never tinkered with one before. Stumbled across a locally produced bodyshell in a rc shop clearance bin for NZ$10 and though why not see what I could scrape up out...

Im an instrumentation technician at New Zealands only Steel mill, produce steel from Iron sand mined from our west coast beaches, enjoy getting out and exploring our nature walks, pictures here from the pinnacles walk near Corromandel, 7hrs return, very sore the next day, also Tama lakes near Mt Rua...

Just ordered a 32/22 idler gear from these guys in Spain,

https://www.ebay.com/usr/vintage-tamiyaparts


https://www.ebay.com/itm/313684992455

They have a bag full of them selling separately, may be of some use if you are hunting for one.


Cheers
Craig

Found an easier solution for the rocky, ran the 3racing universals for the optima ( very reasonably priced) and swapped out the M10 x 5 x4 mm bearings for M10x5x3mm, gives 2mm of wiggle room and they fitted nice with some shimming. Also the Tamiya hard outdrives splines fit right up to the factory d...

Hi all, update, finally, seems we never get enough time to work on these projects, so baby steps, -New 3 racing universals in the rear, and pin/clamp 12mm hex drives to suit, -Steering had some vertical slop which i took out with some anodized cup washers to match the turbo "duralinium" co...

Small updates, front shocks are from a 1:14 truck, oil filled, threaded the shafts a little more to fit inverted on the front, m3 screw under the mounting, ans a sway bar ball fitting threaded on top. This allows us to use an oddball turnbuckle i had lying around from a tamiya set, helps to stiffen ...

Little more progress today, did away with the mini servo, wasn't happy it could handle the load, so i replaced it with a S148 for the time being, did unearth an old Futaba S9102, Alerion servo, same speed and torque, but low profile. May find its way in, also gave me the chance to use up the ugly bl...