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I was wondering about the shocks too,, AE hardware, but purple. Nice match to the ball cups. Any you guys ever try to dye the white g-10? I wonder if it would take color from rit dye.
I've tried with some good heat and couldn't get it to take on my g10. Early associated stuff sure took it well. Scuffing it should help but I haven't tried on my own stuff
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Those are not Golds, they are Academy...buuuuut....
My anodizers pricing went up last year, it's $30 to strip and $45 to ano (there are more add ones like hard anno and bright dip) for a minimum shop charge. i have taken in 4 compete rc10 pans with motor plates and nose plates, shocks and misc screws and still been within the minimum charge.
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I looked for some academy shocks,, those purple ones look great! However,, managed to find some good ole golds. In rough cosmetic shape of course. Hopefully the shafts are good.
It makes sense that there would be a minimum shop charge. There was an artical in rccaraction back in 90s about home anodizing using I think household windo cleaner as the dip, and getting a real light blue from it. It might be interesting to see if theres a home dip gold...
Nice looking LWB mid! I think its the best Kyosho vintage buggy, even over the Lazers. I like the way mine handles, although it stays grounded, so no idea how they jump.
rccars4sal wrote:I looked for some academy shocks,, those purple ones look great! However,, managed to find some good ole golds. In rough cosmetic shape of course. Hopefully the shafts are good.
It makes sense that there would be a minimum shop charge. There was an artical in rccaraction back in 90s about home anodizing using I think household windo cleaner as the dip, and getting a real light blue from it. It might be interesting to see if theres a home dip gold...
Nice looking LWB mid! I think its the best Kyosho vintage buggy, even over the Lazers. I like the way mine handles, although it stays grounded, so no idea how they jump.
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This would be what you´re looking for, if You want purple Academy shocks. The rears are a little bit shorter than the golds - the fronts match the short golds.
I was thinking the same thing. Looks pretty much like gold shocks in purple. Back when I raced an sb pro, it seemed the shocks were fine, but they werent those though. Its weird about the duratrax shocks. Mine didnt leak, but they had almost no damping with 35 wt oil and stock springs. Cant remember if they came with different pistons.
Its cool how opt mid has excellent shock position and geometry with only 2 upper mount choices. Really a well thought out design. They should have carried it further before going with lazer 2 belt design.
I have a few sets of Duraleaks that definitely leaked...and have acquired many sets of Kyosho Golds, sometimes with ancient-looking beat-to-crap shock bodies but when I opened the caps, plenty of oil came out. I have yet to find shocks that worked as well or as reliably, or were as easy to adjust, as Kyosho Golds...so when I wanted colored shocks for my Barney build, the only solution was to deanodize and reanodize them my own colors.
Has anyone owned both a Mid lwb and Lazer ZX?????????
I have herd that the Lazer was not much better. Than i have herd the opposite the Lazer ZX was way better.
It will still be some time away before my lemon Lazer will be finished.
Any info...
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Zx and zxr are much better. Better platform and more stable and easier to drive than the mid. Also doubt the mid can handle the brushless unlike the zx and zxr. The zx slipper is better suited to the brushless system. Ive fitted a 5.5 in mine.
I've seen the ExoDesign LWB conversion, but as my car is already full carbon apart from the main chassis plate I was thinking about going with Fibre-Lyte LWB chassis instead:
I belive the Fibre-Lyte...
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I belive the Fibre-Lyte chassis is for the original mid, does anyone know if the ReRe gearboxes have the same hole pattern as the original where they get bolted to the chassis?
Many thanks
Yes, the rere and the original have the same hole...
On the 8th of February, which is today, I raced my LWB mid in the 4WD class. as you all know the vintage class is non existent here, so I had to pit my Mid against all the modern cars. In total we had 15 guys racing today.
The competition consisted...
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ohh..so thats you on youtube. Your cars look amazing and you have great driving skills. I am just worried about damaging the scorpion on sbs..which is a much more difficult track than the one in your video..besides the XXXXXX traction too and...
I am building an Optima Mid LWB. It is an SWB to LWB conversion.
I apparently have an Optima Mid Custom Special graphite chassis and an LWB belt.
I checked that the belt has 127 teeth and is apparently the correct length (one groove is...
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Yes, later! Unfortunately I don't have a PC with a card reader here so I cannot post photos before I get back home :)
Also I'll open a new thread for this Optima Mid project.
I am new on the forum hi everyone
I got an old Special Custom with the gold flat aluminum or steel chassis.
I have no upper deck.
Chassis could maybe be run this way but has a bit of flex.
Can a Lazer zxr upper deck work?
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This FactoryWorks upper chassis plate is awesome! Thanks so much!
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Does anybody out there know where to source LWB belts for the Optima mid? I do not have BST status yet, and have even tried the original manufacturer MBL. 254XL014 are the markings on the belt. Any help would be great!!!
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Yes I have been told that as well! Along with the Hyperdrive belts coming from the cash register industry! They are just timing belts after all.
I have now made 2 of them.
Sorry I can't attach pics here but if I can send them through messenger to someone and you can attach them here to show them to everyone.
Or if you have spot it in the Facebook and can copy them and put them here I would...
After all the restoration projects almost finished I've come up with the idea of creating an Optima rally car. A big reason for this particular combo is that I've got an original Kyosho Citroën ZX body unpainted and with N.I.P scale accessories....
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Nah, the shock tower itself, I already have the plastic body mount. The only difference is it has the lower holes to mount the front shocks lower down. Otherwise they're exactly the same as normal Mid shock towers (as far as I'm aware).