Well since i'm waiting on parts for my Mid & others I decided to finish my Ultima Pro.
A set of CRP front axles to accept Tamiya wheels have added along with a set of Yokomo adaptors at the rear. I found a set of Tamiya spoke wheels that compliment the rear J.C 5 spoke wheels. I quickly dyed the wheels too match up in color. Added a few stickers that were missing to make it almost box art. Li po saddle packs fitted with the original 14X2 mega motor.
Seems to be going really well & will give it a run at Boondal next.
yeah Mark.. Now make sure your buddy with the gopro cam gets some good footage of that one. Bring your 1st gen caged ultima too, next time he's filming!
I installed a old school Novak GTX esc & a Trinty 15T Quad Speed Gems 2 motor. It was very quick & felt better then my original Ultima with Turbo towers & golds.
Is there anyway that the modern wheels can be used to this car?
Sure, at least with regards to the rear wheels, most 2.2" modern wheels with 12mm hex should work. Look for wheels between 35 and 40 mm wide and you'll want tires from about 80-ish to 90-ish millimeters in diameter.
Short answer, it's not difficult, and can be done.
Throw RB5 hub carriers and steering blocks and axles up front, and you can do 12mm hex fronts from the rb5, and many other 12mm fronts. You could also do CRP axles to put Tamiya bearings and wheels. Then use TRF201/DN01 Wheels. You could ALSO switch the carriers/hubs/axles to something with std measurements i.e. B4 or RC10 and use those wheels. You may still want wide front arms, or you can make up some of the width loss with the different carriers or extended axles.
If you use jr-x2 axles, steeringknuckle, C-carrier and hinge pins you can use B3 (b4?) rims up front.
(You just need to ream the holes for the hngepins up from 3 to 3.2mm. everything else drops in perfect)
Finally finished this bitsa of a Ultima for our Boondal meets.
I wanted something different to my Tamiya's so i had a Plastic Kelron Ultima in bits. A new chassis was purchased for my Turbo so that left me a ladder style chassis. Than it dawned on...
Hello all, I am new to these forums, an avid vintage collector and racer of modern and vintage models, I am currently finishing a restoration/build of a Hotrick Converted Optima with many option parts.
I intend to race it amongst current models...
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I recently machined up a slipper unit for my ultima, and it came out pretty good. I may do another for my optima project. I am planning to post pics of my Ultimate Ultima project as soon as I can get some time to vacuum bag a chassis, and finish it....
I just picked up a Ultima Pro at the local junk store, in a box with a radio shack monster truck for $20.00. All the Pro is going to need is the upper fiberglass tray and a body. Dave (DW911) has this upper tray for sale and I was wondering if any...
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the pro's flat brown anodised alu chassis has the same wheelbase as a stadard or turbo ultima. But apparently that chassis was not the noe included with the pro for thUS market? Still I think the wheelbase is only different for the kelron and...
........with Lohas Hurricanes :D
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Fantastic looking car, although I'd find it really difficult to choose between those sets of wheels. Both sets look great. The second set look like Sees if I'm not mistaken?
Maybe change the wheels around each week so both sets get to go on...
I just bought this Ultima Pro last week. It's a bit rough around the edges as you'd expect from a car this age but I think it'll clean up well. The main reason for buying it was the fact that I've never had one before, I was always into the 4WD...
Well it's going to be an Ultima anyway. I picked up an outrage for CHEAP the other day. I also have gotten a hold of a Ultima Pro chassis. (I know that the XL chassis is generally more desirable, but I like a twitchy car!!) Got a few Questions...
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I'd love to see a pic of the bottom of that motor guard, and how it mounts to the chassis there. I wonder if it would work for an Optima?
Erik - I still don't have a gear cover. :( ...I think the stock one will still fit. I'll be sure to let you...
This was bought off ebay last year as birthday present to myself to give me a large dose of nostalgia. I raced one as a kid back in 91-94 when everybody else had Schumacher cougars and rc10s.
I had to...
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Hey mate
What bits did you use to do the shorty conversion mate? It looks great. I just picked up a pro with the same alloy chassis but was puzzled as to what holder I could mount but it looked difficult with all those slots for the saddle pack...
This is my first post on this forum, and I apologize if my english is not 100%
I recently had a look around my old RC cars and found some parts from my first real race car.
This got me the idea to try to build a replica.
Prior to the...
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There are some Ultima PRO XL for sale but they are either very expensive or in bad shape.
Found a old Ultima 2 on Ebay that I am going to use as a donor car for the parts that is missing.
I do not know in which direction this build will take, but I...