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IMO the rear wheel is on backwards.

My "basket case" Kyosho Assault restoration
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Kyosho Optima Original, Option House Gold Shocks, LeMans 240ST, Body is paint not re-re decals

pretty sure he said in another post that he misses his assaults so I'm thinking the update is they are gone...

Todd

Thanks for the comments. I have been really lucky to retain almost all of my original cars, and the one I did sell (my CAT XL) has now very fortunately returned to me from the same friend I sold it to in the early 90's. This build is just missing a few vital pieces of hardware, although it had falte...

Thanks Keith.
I think you're right about the bumper...
Kyosho packs both bumpers in the box so you won't need to choose.
The bigger bumper definitely makes the car look more vintage. Now, if I could only do something about those hideous tires....

the mint baja I had used a kydex bumper, so making one from 2-3mm kydex would be correct. the alloy one looks pretty much on point too.

Looks good!

Nice job on the bumper. Bumpers for some old Kyosho cars were almost impossible to find, especially the Optima, back in the day. You could never find one that wasn't beat up to hell, or priced affordably, so as they say: "Necessity is the mother of invention", and I made my own, too. I thi...

Wow, we've got some straight-up bumper Michelangelo's in the house. Nice work guys!!

Here are the measurements of the Rowdy Baja bumper I have if it helps any. 266.7mm wide along the front edge. 166.7mm wide along the back edge. 30mm deep in the center before the kickup. 19mm deep on the sides before the kickup. 19mm wide kickup portion. 88.9mm inches center to center mounting holes...

Yeah, it's probably different but I figured it may help to get some idea. It is pretty large overall. I did a Google image search for protractors, and held it up to the screen, and it seems to me like it has a 50 degree kickup angle.

keithrc wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:14 am The platinum shocks certainly weren't a performance upgrade, the gold shocks are far superior.

So true.

The Turbo Rocky suffers from the same disease

keithrc wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:20 am That really looks the goods man, if I'm not mistaken, only these and the Turbo Optima Mid SE have those platinum shocks?


Keith

90mm eyelet to eyelet the way it came off the car. Its alot thicker tho, much bigger eyelets. Looks like 8th scale stuff