Kyosho Lazer Alpha with Skyline body. Have some mixed feelings about this one:
- Body painted very bright orange with Calsonic stickers and painted windows (black, but still...hate that), but in excellent condition.
- Broken front suspension (was shown in pictures), but also broken chassis and front gear box (not so). One the other hand, Lazer ZX wishbones.
- Shock towers are aftermarket FRP but for another car, adaptation of rear tower is okay, front tower was misdrilled
and probably will need to be chucked out unless I can somehow salvage it (grrr...)
- Fixed length upper links replaced by Tamiya turnbuckles, one of which was also used for the most bone-headed chassis stiffener I have ever seen: two lengths of 5 mm aluminum rod glued to two plastic sleeves attached together by the turnbuckle, and the whole thing wedged between the shock towers and glued into place using blue threadlock
I was able to remove the whole thing by lightly pulling on one of the ends...
- Car has ball bearings and two ball diffs, plus front lightweight universals (Kose, I guess).
- All screws threadlocked into place, including those that go into plastic. Motor mount butchered, spur coated in grease, spur cover too (WHYY!?)
However, I suspect a lot of the screws are actually titanium screws.
- Bumpers made of styrofoam doublesided to plastic parts.
- Finally, the car has slicks. Standard Kyosho slicks. Which the previous owner covered with Tamiya caps (rain tires that fit over FOAMS). Which apparently didn't fit well, got torn off (partially) and dried out.
The slicks that are underneath are, like, brand new.
I think the condition of the body (ignoring the color) is directly proportional to the degree of technicity of the homemade modifications (which all have a serious degree of suck). That probably means the ball diffs and other unmodified parts are in decent condition because the car was undrivable.
