Ultima Rebuild

[transamman908]

This build started with a dirty but never completed Ultima I stole off ebay about 3 years ago. It was one of those "This is from a estate sale and I have no idea what this is" kind of things, along with a poor title and wrong catagory(gotta love those!) Anyway, along the way I wasn't sure about keeping it or what and started pulling it apart here and there, selling the original red, mint shocks at some point like an ass because I needed extra cabbage for bills but managed to hang on to the rest of it. I recently pulled it off the pile of projects and sat down with it and this is where I'm at with it so far.
I went with some original hop ups and wanted to mantain it's stock look. The transmission got a full overhaul using a thorp final pinion, option house ball diff and a thorp overdrive kit(kept the o.h. special center gear thats in the pic). The sway bars, motor guard and chassis really are cool options kyosho offered bitd. I'm waiting on a original speed control, paint the body and searching for a original wing( trying to avoid a repo). Help!!
I do have one ? about the radio plate. I replaced the original one on this with another one I had that was nip. It had the same UM part # but the design is different. The one that I have on it now, is it a later/newer version or was this used on another version of a Ultima? Also, being it's missing the tabs for the MSC will it still accept a MSC or do the gold lugs just hold it in place.

[GJW]

looking very good so far, have a hard time finding part's?

[Momo5]

Yeah, looking good! I have an original Ultima that I'm working on too. I still cant decide if I want to run the stock tranny, maybe buy an A&L, or fabricate a stealth tranny to it like another member on here did.

[Hcp22]

Turned out beautiful

[RichieRich]

Fantastic! Still love the Ultimas. It's good to see other's enjoying them too.

[cooltoys]

Nice Ultima.. I need one of those cages for my ultima build...
I'm sure that will turn out really great!!

[Mad Racer]

The original Ultima came with a front sway bar.

The front bar you have is from the turbo version. Or was a option part to mount the bar in a different location. The original bar was used with the non adj camber links. the bar ran back into the top chassis plate and out again. Have a look at the top camber link and you should see a little hole for the bar to slide into.

I never knew the Ultima came standard with a front sway bar. It was optional to install it in the back of the manual but was included .

In this pic you can see the front bar.

Maybe this is why there was a different top deck other from the GRP version that the Turbo came with.

[Coelacanth]

I do have one ? about the radio plate. I replaced the original one on this with another one I had that was nip. It had the same UM part # but the design is different. The one that I have on it now, is it a later/newer version or was this used on another version of a Ultima?

The one that's on the car in the pic above, 008.jpg, labeled "Kyosho Corporation", looks to be beefier at the front where it narrows into a triangular shape. The spare plate below it doesn't look as beefy. Maybe the better one is from a Turbo Ultima? I know that with the Turbo Optima, most of the aluminum shock towers were pretty thin and very easily bent. Later, shock towers were made that were significantly thicker. I believe the part numbers were the same, but the shock towers were identical in every other way except thickness.

[DennisM]

I do have one ? about the radio plate. I replaced the original one on this with another one I had that was nip. It had the same UM part # but the design is different. The one that I have on it now, is it a later/newer version or was this used on another version of a Ultima?

The one that's on the car in the pic above, 008.jpg, labeled "Kyosho Corporation", looks to be beefier at the front where it narrows into a triangular shape. The spare plate below it doesn't look as beefy. Maybe the better one is from a Turbo Ultima? I know that with the Turbo Optima, most of the aluminum shock towers were pretty thin and very easily bent. Later, shock towers were made that were significantly thicker. I believe the part numbers were the same, but the shock towers were identical in every other way except thickness.

I´ve just checked my Sideways Ultima and it has the same radioplate as Yours have now. The one with the slightly enforced edges.

[jackultima]

looking very good

[transamman908]

Thanks for the comments and help with the radio plate id. I'm currently awaiting a wing and have installed the original msc and Pulsar radio. Pics to come. Would like to find a original box to go with this.