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I have an old Kyosho Lazer Alpha. I'm trying to decide fixing it up or selling it and a big part of that is chassis options. Is there a carbon fiber or fiberglass option for this car. I'm wondering if the drive train is the same as other lazers or even any version of the optima mids.

lazer and mids are not the same drive train .
Paul

this is something to keep on your desk top this site has a lot of info on most kyoshos old reviews plus manuals

http://www.retromodelisme.com/

I don't remember ever checking, but a std Lazer ZX chassis might fit. The drive train varies slightly between the ZX and the Alpha/2000. The belts are the same, the diffs are the same. The layshaft is where there is a big difference. The Lazer ZX has a ball type torque splitter that can be used to transfer power bias to the front and rear diff. This layshaft also included an adjustible oneway front drive option. It had two different oneway drive options in the layshaft (different than the adjustible front oneway) to further enhance your "tuning". In practice, it was rarely used properly, and usually "locked" by the racer. In later versions the ZX layshaft was tossed in favor of a lighter more simple version with a slipper. There were two versions of this. The version that came with the ZX-R series which was a two disk style that used Kyosho spurs, and than later a version called a "Hyper Clutch" which was similar to the style that came on the stealth trannies from Associated, -this allowed you to use std style spurs. -Jeff

Thanks for the help. Just deciding what direction I'm going to go now.