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Hello Turbo Inferno fans, collectors, and parts people. I'm going to take an early 90's Turbo Inferno out of long term storage. Approximately 27 years. I have lost the manual, so I feel completely lost. Additionally, it's been so long since I did...

Ok, so i had several Optima Mid runners bitd, in fact I hankered after one as soon as they were released.

We purchased an Optima Mid Turbo almost immediately, and I ran that at club level in standard form for a short while with a decent amount of...

OK, maybe it isnt exactly vintage, but it will be some day.

This little guy has about every hop up part on it with exception of aluminum arms. Stayed with the brushed arrangement because that is what it was originally equipped with. I dont plan on...

Here is my Optima. I hope you guys like it.

So just got my hands on this thing of beauty.
Needs some light touch up, Camel decals and will try to source the right electronics as seen in promotion video.

Kyosho 7.2V 1700mah SCR nicd battery No. 2348
Kyosho Mega Motor 22x1 (sorted)
Futaba MC...

Possibly a totally newbie question as I am a total newbie; does anyone know what glow plug a vintage Kyosho GS11r engine would require? It is from a pureten gp spider mk2 car.

TIA

Hi all

Anyone wired one of these mechanical speed controls up minus the resistors?

What's the pro's and con's of doing so?

Thanks

So as in my introduction I recently acquired this Optima mid mostly complete and appearing in running order but in need of a lot of tlc. It's an exciting little project for my first trip back into the RC world after about 20 years away ...
The...

When I went to my lhs back in November. one of the employees showed me this in the back. $75 was the mark down tag on it (new price tag on side said $219.99) been wanting to grab it just to build a new 20 year old kit, was open, made it through a...

As the subject says I'm looking for insight into when and on which buggy model Kyosho first used 48p gears and which model was the last to use 0.8 mod?
My own research by looking through manuals would indicate it was on the Triumph with the TM-7...

Back in the late ‘80’s, our local RC track established two classes for off-road 2wd stock – “RC10” and “540” which was open to everything else. I’d been competing with an RC10 (in both stock and modified) and getting my butt kicked so I wanted to...

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I just dug this old car out of my cellar; I know it's a Kyosho, but maybe some of you guys can help me identify the model? I need to identify the part in the pic - it's a front suspension holder, but I can't find one like it anywhere...

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I dug out my vintage outlaw rampage from storage today and looks like I need new tires, body, decals and replace a few broken parts. While searching for parts noticed there are some rampage pro parts like the blue aluminum chassis, pro arms...

Hi all, just acquired an optima (chain drive) well its on its way ! So will post pics when its driven here, what I need to get what I know of are driveshafts what fits cvd, uj, ? And how can I convert to 48 dp on spur gear, been a long time since I...

I made some trades for a NIB ultima :shock:
I have bags 1,2,4,5,6,7,8, but I think I'm missing #3.
Unless 3 is the card that has the shocks, gearbox, esc, etc... on it?

Any help here would be appreciated, I've always been more into losi buggies...

Just finished this strange looking piece of plastic from the late eigthies - Parma for Optima Mid.
+ Doesn´t need cutout for spur gear.
- Weird looking rear part

I picked this up at a flea market today, got a pretty smokin' deal at $20, if you ask me.
There was also an original stadium blitzer, but I didn't have enough money with me.
I did a quick search around, and can't find too much info on this buggy....

Something a little different for the Kyosho crowd. This conversion for the Ultima is similar to my other C2.1 conversions but lacks an upper deck and uses a Traxxas front bulkhead and special tower to simulate a Kyosho front end. It is wider than...

Ok after about 2 years of R & D, which included the testing and eventual ruling out of the twin belt system on the Optima Mid, I am glad to announce the success of my 48P conversion. Special thanks to Linus from Sweden who worked with me to suggest...

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I´ve recently found an incomplete kit of one of these great nitro trucks at a closing store. So I bought it, took home to realize what parts were in the box and what not.

Complete running chassis with suspensions, fuel tank, front 2.2...

I really don´t know why - perhaps I´ve got too many Optima´s :roll:

Hi all, haven't posted a thread on here for a while, haven't had too much going on until I scored this Presto that I found when looking for Assault stuff (that'll be another thread on it's own later on). I traded an Ultima Pro for it so all it cost...

Thought I share with you one of my stalled Kyosho projects :(

It started life as an original Optima Mid......I left it for nearly a year in its original state to do my CATs then chanced on this A&L kit. The guy that sold it to me also include the...

I bought a Lazer ZX-R (as best I can tell) off of ebay. I'm pretty sure it was raced at some point, because it was outfitted with Losi shocks, and the finned heatsink/motor mount. I also think it became a toy or was sold off later. In any case, I...

I have this Kyosho Le Mans 34 Super Stock motor that I found in the box of the RC10 I'm working on. I can barely find ANY info on the entire internet, so hopefully this will get me some more info on this thing.
Basically, if you know ANYTHING AT ALL...

Here's another Ultima I've been slowly working on. Little bit kin-worlds-y with its hard ano'd shocks and black, white, and blue theme. Yet, old school also if I stay with the 1.5 and 1.9 Scorpion wheel and tire combo.

Not my build, but a gorgeous “what if” build by Siebenelch

Follow the link:

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I don't know why but I decided to dig out my barely used Kyosho Optima Mid that I bought and built more than 20 years ago-I ran it about 10 times at the most. It ran perfectly until I decided to forget about it all these years, but now...

Hi all,
I'm working on restoring an Optima Mid and wondering if the body on the box actually exists. Looking at images on the web, the only body I see (as a repro and on original vintage Mids) is the Turbo Optima Mid and Turbo Optima Mid SE body.
If...

Some pics of my Mid restorations. They are as close to box art as i could get them. Some of the box decals are tough finds and not included in the reproduction sets.
My current project is a regular Mid - i've painted up and decaled a reproduction...

Hi all, new member here. My name is Steve and i was heavily into RC in the late 80's to early 90's. Owned a few different models from Tamiya and Kyosho, but my favorites were always the Optima Mids.

I just finished an Optima Mid Custom Special...

As part of an expanding vintage Kyosho collection, I've recently restored a Turbo Optima. It started out as 2 Turbo's that I picked up last year, and chose the parts from each to create the best one I could. I wanted to recreate the one I saw on the...

Hi!
I will show my 1987 Javelin renovation here!

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32 years ago: :D
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got this from markbt73. she's been abused so now its time for some love! not a big fan of this buggy but the body sold me. got some new parts coming to replace the broken ones. here she is now the chsssis is in a bath to strip off the white paint....

Im after some assistance with finding some metric Kyosho type universal or CVD drive shafts.

Is there a database or a list here or elsewhere?

Hi, new member here. I thought I'd share some photos and thoughts on restoring my old Turbo Optima Mid. It's taken a couple of months, and I've loved every minute of it :D

So, my old Turbo Optima Mid was in a box gathering dust since the early...

Hi All,

I recently restored my Turbo Ultima II. I took it to my local hobby store and he suggested upgrading to an ESC, a new control, and new tires (I was able to find some 4x10x4mm bearings to make the front wheels fit the stock axel). I don't...

Hey everybody!

First time poster and a relative newbie in the RC world, at least as an adult. I found my first (and only, sadly) RC in the basement when goong through some old stuff. Its an old Kyosho 1:10 Toyota Celica Carlos Sainz Limited...

Hey Guys,

I know some of you oval guys might get a kick out of this one!

I got the kit about a year ago, it was seating on the shelf in front of me for all that time, debating whether I should build it or not...

After some deeeeeeeep :roll:...

Was very lucky to end up with this old racer.
One of my favorites for sure.
Jim Schauer's Scorpion with an original Andy's painted body. Haven't seen many that ran the Mip trans.

OK so the title is a little open ended but I thought it would be cool to get a list and even better some pics together of all the different vintage upgrades that were available.
I'm a big mid fan so keen to see from that perspective but also I have...

JG Optima Mid . chassis, top radio plate and body. andy's a-arms front and rear. tecnacraft turnbuckles.one way front diff.schumacher tires.special thanks to Mr. ED and incredible_serious for help with parts to finish her up...

Does anyone know how much longer the JG chassis kit was compared to the stock LWB chassis? It's been bugging me for a few weeks now and I'm having trouble digging up any info on it. Thanks!

I've got a bunch of old Kyosho Burns and Inferno tanks that I would like to clean up/restore. The all have the green gunk in them. I could clean some of it all but not all.

Does anyone have an easy solution to clean these old tanks up? I notice...

I've purchased a Kyosho Optima for a good price with some ware but no major damage that I can see. I know the shocks are shot and will need new tires however I'm kind of at an impasse on what else I should do. I know this was made before electronic...

I have had my Kyosho Stinger MKII stripped down to the last screw for a few weeks now. I needed shock oil, and diff grease before I could start to rebuild.
The car has had quite some use and It took me quite a lot of work just to get the parts...

Ok, so I thought I'd document my resto of a chain drive Optima here, this project went on for quite a while with quite a few starts and stops. S any way onto the pics.
I started with a 2nd hand example that as a bonus came with option house gold...