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Hey Does anyone have a lipo battery in there Ultima?? If so what did you do to mount the battery?? My old setup was with the wide zip ty for the curved edge batteries. I found a battery tray off of amazon https://www.amazon.com/Acxico-Carbon-Battery-Mounting-Crawler/dp/B081YP9X15/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1...

Hey Does anyone have a lipo battery in there Ultima?? If so what did you do to mount the battery?? My old setup was with the wide zip ty for the curved edge batteries. I found a battery tray off of amazon https://www.amazon.com/Acxico-Carbon-Battery-Mounting-Crawler/dp/B081YP9X15/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1...

It Must be the Covid 19 blues!! Seems everyone with spare time and totally board stiff is finding or digging out there old cars to tinker with :D It's all GOOD! Can't go to Church Can't go to the Bar Can't Dine Inn Can't have big family get togethers Can't go on dates ( If you are single ) Can't hav...

Should Have added this front piece but here it is

Well here I Go Rebuild time. Got the carbon fiber dragon plate. My old plate was like 3.3mm thick! So I ordered 4mm? Thinking 3mm thick was smaller best to go a bit thicker ? Got out to the shop and taped up the new carbon fiber plate both sides then looked at how I was going to cut it with the curv...

Hello I ordered a sheet of carbon fiber Dragon Plate 4mm thick and I should have gotten 3mm thick plate going to order that next. What I plan on doing since this carbon fiber kit you can't get no more is build a new Kit?? Use the old plate as a template to cut the new one! the old one is fine, but a...

I have one just like it from back in the 80's this is going to be my next project rebuild with stock parts but modern electronics the motor I have I have 3 of the 240 Le Mans motors and two others that can be rebuilt but I am thinking of doing one of the new slow rpm speed rock crawler motor's and m...

Thanks for the info on the Li-Po batteries!! I kind of read some of that the other day, then the part about them exploding?? Then I remember seeing that cell phone in the guy's pocket on TV somewhere not to long ago!! The Li-Po batteries like that ???? I ordered a 300mm x 400mm x 4mm carbon fiber pl...

I know I am a little late but do you know were you got the body and wing ??? and the front bumper ??? I got an old optima that is just like it I am going to restore after I do my Ultima

When I first got into this they did not have ESC's back then, it was what the car came with. It was like two or three month later the first Speed controllers started hitting the markets, and the tracks, we found out the cheap one's did not last long and the good one's were like gold. I got two cheap...

Well my youngest son was looking at my Ultima today and, Said dad that is cheap you need a rock crawler like mine So this is not a RC rock crawler but is you sub a ESC for a person?? this looks kind of not so tall but the nose of the hood is like 5 feet from the ground. He also has tires that are bi...

Dennis From what I have read about programable ESC at lease on the Castle X Mamba? Well i think i have read it right, you can program the ESC to Not hit that hard or go that fast!!???? In a way it will be like governing the motor or in the real world like taking a corvette with dual 4 bbl carbs and ...

Thanks Just got done ordering all the parts for the new tranny, and a new futaba 3pv I know it is not a high dollar radio/transmitter! Along with all this and the new parts on the steering this i have to do some more mods to get this front upper plate from this https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-RC-Ky...

Try this again Sorry I found these at Kyosho America .com https://www.kyoshoamerica.com/UT009S-Motor-Plate-ULTIMA_p_26191.html https://www.kyoshoamerica.com/Diff-Shaft-2pcsOPTIMA-2016_p_24409.html https://www.kyoshoamerica.com/Gear-Set-OPTIMA-2016_p_24406.html# https://www.kyoshoamerica.com/UT008-Di...

Thank You DennisM

i found these at Kyosho America .com

https://www.kyoshoamerica.com/UT009S-Motor-Plate-ULTIMA_p_26191.html