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Hello All, Does any one know if anybody made a production "legend" shock tower like the one in the picture?

Hi The legend is the prototype car for the WC 89 in Australia of the LAZER ZX Kyosho.

See: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=16922

That packaging looks familiar. Wasn't there a member selling a bunch of parts for (chassis / shock towers / wheels) a couple years ago?

And yes, the legend became the lazer. I still remember the small black and white picture of it in RCCA.

highwayracer wrote:That packaging looks familiar. Wasn't there a member selling a bunch of parts for (chassis / shock towers / wheels) a couple years ago?

DW911. he hasn't been around for a couple months.

Back in the old days I knew the couple that produced these shock towers. It was a local company here in Toronto Canada. I would like to use this part on my runner but I wanted to know if there are others out there that I may be able to track down. If not I will make an autocad drawing so If I break it I will be able to have another laser cut. I really would like one of the rear shock towers so I can have a set.

send him a pm. he had a bunch of strade stuff.

Well I send him a PM. Let see what happens.

looking back through some stuff, he was the owner. i didn't remember that.

I think that it is the same guy. I found a thread that he had posted on. I did not him very well I think I met him once but I knew his wife. She was the one that would show up at the track to sell the graphite parts. A rather nice lady. Hopefully he still lives in town and I can get to him for some parts.

I bought some parts of him. The smaller ones like shock towers were very good. But on on the larger parts: topdecks and chassis you could notice they had a hard time keeping holes in the right places. The optima mid chassis I had for example had the rear gearbox mount pattern a little angled to the front pattern.
Not dramatic for a shelfer, just don't expect the higher quality of bigger brands.

I'm a fan of the 'Legend' towers and had to have a set for my ZX. Wished mine were the black graphite instead of carbon fibre though....

J.M

Holy Cow I had a car that looked almost like that paint and all. I had the pink Yokomo rims with the Yokomo mini pin tires. I guess great minds think alike.

Mr. ED wrote:I bought some parts of him. The smaller ones like shock towers were very good. But on on the larger parts: topdecks and chassis you could notice they had a hard time keeping holes in the right places. The optima mid chassis I had for example had the rear gearbox mount pattern a little angled to the front pattern.
Not dramatic for a shelfer, just don't expect the higher quality of bigger brands.

I wasn't going to bring it up but since you did, so will I. I have a couple Strate Engineering parts, including a bumper that was supposedly for an Optima but is actually for a Mid, and I agree...my overall impression of the quality was that it wasn't the best. Not so bad, but not so great either. At least that's my observations with this Kydex bumper.

urban hype wrote:J.M

Holy Cow I had a car that looked almost like that paint and all. I had the pink Yokomo rims with the Yokomo mini pin tires. I guess great minds think alike.

Yeah I always wanted a ZX. Once completing this build I could not be happier with it.